Principles & Practices of Fire Fighting

  • Duration: 5 days
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Principles & Practices of Fire Fighting
5-Day Intensive Course

Course Outlines:

1. Fire Behavior

  • Combustion
  • Heat
  • Determining
  • Flashover
  • Backdraft

2. The Mechanisms of Fire Extinguishment

  • 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

3. The Development of Firefighting

  • 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

4. Firefighting Strategy

  • Personnel Requirements
  • Apparatus Response Time
  • Need for Communications
  • Chain of Command at Fires
  • Establishment of a Command Post
  • Span of Control
  • Incident Command System

5. Firefighting Tactics

  • Tactical Considerations
  • Life Hazard
  • Location of Fire
  • Extension Probability
  • Type of Fire
  • Size of the Fire
  • Analysis of the Fire Situation

6. The Action Plan-Working at a Fire

  • Finding the Fire
  • Rescue
  • Search
  • Entry
  • Ventilation
  • Protection of Exposures
  • Safety
  • Communication
  • Call for Additional Help
  • Extinguishment
  • Salvage
  • Cooperation of Other Agencies
  • Overhauling

7. Fire ground Control and Coordination

  • Stress Situation
  • Coordination
  • Tactical Errors and Tactics
  • Application of the Tactics

8. Safety on the Fireground

  • 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

9. The Fire Building – Hindrance and Help

  • Vertical Spread of Heat and Smoke
  • Clues Given by a Building’s Age
  • Structural Failure
  • Building Collapse
  • Mill Construction
  • Collapse from Water

10. Sprinkler Operations

  • Checking the Supply
  • Sprinkler Flow
  • Automatic Wet-Pipe System
  • Automatic Dry-Pipe System
  • Deluge Systems
  • Non-Automatic Systems

11. Major Fires

  • 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

12. Special-Problem Fires

  • High-Rise Buildings
  • Electrical Fires
  • Flammable-Liquid Fires
  • Hazardous Materials (Haz-Mats)
  • Chemical Fires
  • Radioactive Materials
  • Pier Fires

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