This is a survey of fundamental facts and operations applicable to hazardous materials incidents. The emphasis is on storage, handling, standards, special equipment, toxicology, and monitoring. This course is a continuation of the study of hazardous materials and application to specialized hazardous materials response teams. Emphasis is placed on specialized skills and equipment required to mitigate a hazardous materials incident. This is a survey of general chemistry as applied to the fire service.
Emphasis is on fundamental facts, principles, theories, and applications.
This course is a review of basic mathematics, hydraulic laws and formulae as applied to the fire service, water supply problems and underwriters' requirement for pumps. This course is a study of fire suppression, organization, fire suppression equipment, characteristics and behavior of fire, and fire hazard properties of ordinary materials. This course is a review of fire chemistry, equipment and manpower, basic fire fighting tactics and strategy, methods of attack and pre-planning fire problems. I 3 Hrs. This course highlights and assesses the problems and hazards to fire personnel when a building is attacked by fire or is under stress from other factors dealing with collapse.