- Duration: 5 days
Categories: Engineering & HSE
Principles & Practices of Fire Fighting
5-Day Intensive Course
Course Outlines:
- Combustion
- Heat
- Determining
- Flashover
- Backdraft
- Water Flow and Form
- Fog: Theory and Practice
- Critical Rate for Each Fire
- Steam Extinguishment
- Solid and Straight Streams
- Disadvantages of Fog
- When not to Use Water
- Firefighting Foams Other Additives
- Fire-Extinguishing Chemicals
- Expansion of Ladder Company Functions
- Staffing a Company
- Staffing Trials
- Personnel on First Alarm
- Establishment of Rescue Companies
- Salvage
- Influence on the Fire Service by the Insurance Industry
- Progress in Firefighting
- Personnel Requirements
- Apparatus Response Time
- Need for Communications
- Chain of Command at Fires
- Establishment of a Command Post
- Span of Control
- Incident Command System
- Tactical Considerations
- Life Hazard
- Location of Fire
- Extension Probability
- Type of Fire
- Size of the Fire
- Analysis of the Fire Situation
- Finding the Fire
- Rescue
- Search
- Entry
- Ventilation
- Protection of Exposures
- Safety
- Communication
- Call for Additional Help
- Extinguishment
- Salvage
- Cooperation of Other Agencies
- Overhauling
- Stress Situation
- Coordination
- Tactical Errors and Tactics
- Application of the Tactics
- Building Collapse
- Burns
- Smoke Inhalation
- Electrocution
- Safety and Building Collapse
- Safety Aids
- Work on Peaked Roofs
- Use of Safety Belts
- Laddering Damaged Stairs
- Rescue Carry
- Smoke-A High Hazard
- Heat Hazard and Clothing
- Clothing Limitation and Problems
- Importance of Visibility
- Protection of the Head and the Extremities
- Electrical Hazards
- Handling Live Wires
- Secondary Injuries
- Getting Lost
- Critical Incident Stress
- Vertical Spread of Heat and Smoke
- Clues Given by a Building’s Age
- Structural Failure
- Building Collapse
- Mill Construction
- Collapse from Water
- Checking the Supply
- Sprinkler Flow
- Automatic Wet-Pipe System
- Automatic Dry-Pipe System
- Deluge Systems
- Non-Automatic Systems
- Logistical Factors
- Command Structure
- Staging Area
- Lack of Experience
- Need for Brand Patrols
- Learning from the Past
- Holding Actions
- Fire Officials of Disaster Area
- Mutual-Aid Providers
- High-Rise Buildings
- Electrical Fires
- Flammable-Liquid Fires
- Hazardous Materials (Haz-Mats)
- Chemical Fires
- Radioactive Materials
- Pier Fires