COURSE OVERVIEW

 This practical and highly-interactive course includes practical sessions and demonstration where participants carryout firefighting. Theory learnt in the class will be applied using a fire extinguisher through hands-on practical sessions. 

 

This course is designed to provide participants with a detailed and up-to-date overview of NFPA 1001. It covers the roles and responsibilities of a firefighter; the fire department structure and functions, firefighter personal protective equipment (PPE) and fire station policies and procedures; the elements of fire (fire triangle and tetrahedron), phases of fire development, heat transfer methods and types of fire and classifications; the personal protective equipment (PPE), hazardous conditions in firefighting and types of fire department communication systems; and the fire service tools and equipment including types of fire service ladders and their uses. 

 

Further, the course will also discuss the types of fire hoses, hose lays and hydrant operations, nozzles and water stream management and hose loading, advancing, and rolling techniques; the ventilation techniques, searching and rescuing techniques and firefighter survival and self-rescue; the fire suppression tactics, classifications of fire and extinguishing agents, firefighter rehabilitation and medical monitoring; and the NFPA 704 labeling system, hazardous materials incidents, protective actions and isolation zones and emergency decontamination procedures. 

 

During this interactive course, participants will learn the fire prevention and inspections, smoke detector placement and maintenance and public fire education campaigns; the wildland fire behavior and fuel types, fireline construction and hand tools, wildland PPE and safety considerations and water sources and suppression techniques; the advanced fire suppression techniques, tactical ventilation in structural fires, technical rescue operations and incident command system (ICS) in firefighting; the firefighter health, safety, and wellness, post-incident reporting and documentation, safe exit strategies and emergency procedures; and the SCBA proficiency and emergency procedures, search and rescue final evaluation and firefighter physical agility test.