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List Currently Showing Topic: Engine Company
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* Understanding Fireground Command
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4
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$25.00
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Faculty:
Richard Gasaway
| Understanding how you make decisions and how to develop and maintain your situation awareness are keys to your success as an incident commander. |
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** Technology and ARFF: Saving Lives Through Innovation
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4
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Jeff Giraud, 0
| A look at four essential elements of aircraft rescue and firefighting (ARFF): agents, applications, appliances, and apparatus. |
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*Pressurized Fire Attack Precautions: THE “BIG THREEE”
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4
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Faculty:
Kriss Garcia, Reinhard Kauffmann
| Using fans to bring a fire under control is effective and safe when employed correctly in structures that lend themselves to such a tactic. Learn when, where, and how to deploy a positive-pressure attack.The educational objectives are as follows: 1. Understand the difference between positive-pressure attack (PPA) and positive-pressure ventilation (PPV). 2. Know the conditions in which fans should not be used. 3. Know when the Diagnostic Barometer of Interior Conditions indicates that the fire situation is conducive to PPA. 4. Know to what the three “E”s in the “Big Threee” refer. |
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25 Pointers for Your Engine Company
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4
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Faculty:
Jeff Shupe
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This is a baseline for engine company operations ranging from pre-alarm considerations to post incident analysis. The educational objectives are as follows: 1. Describe the limits of various hoseline sizes and the appropriate size for specific fires using the acronym “ADULTS”. 2. Describe proper nozzle operating techniques. 3. Gain an understanding of the importance of apparatus positioning in terms of hoseline stretching. 4. Gain an understanding of the importance of proper hoseline pressure and flow. |
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Firefighter Casualties: When “Old-School Firefighting” Doesn’t Work
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Credit Hours:
4
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Faculty:
Jeff Giraud, 0
A cavalier approach to structural firefighting shows a gross misunderstanding of risk management and usually leads to needless injuries and deaths on the fireground. Your job is to keep personnel from developing such an old-school attitude.
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Hoseline Operations for Residential Fires
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Credit Hours:
4
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Faculty:
Bill Gustin
Tactics for stretching, advancing, and operating hoselines are critical to firefighting. A review of size-up factors to consider before deploying a hoseline at a residential fire.
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How Prepared Is Your Engine Company?
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Credit Hours:
2
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Faculty:
Brett Snow
The information provided in this course/article comes from lessons learned and skills handed down by very experienced firefighters and officers of the Chicago Fire Department. At the end of this course you will better understand effective ways to stretch a hose line, the roles of each member of the hose team, the do’s and don’ts of hose line management, and how to properly operate the pipe (nozzle). Also, this course will encourage self evaluation of one’s skill level as well as the skill level of your engine company as a whole.
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Tactical Decision Making
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Credit Hours:
4
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Faculty:
Steve Chikerotis
Examine case studies and lessons learned from the chief’s personal experiences in almost 30 years of crawling down hallways on the Chicago (IL) Fire Department. Each incident is brought to life through exciting pictures and video. Each story reinforces a powerful lesson learned, including risk management, reading smoke, building construction and collapse, fireground tactics, flashover, communications and accountability, commanding the Mayday, and RIT rescue. This course is geared to the seasoned veteran as well as the new recruit. The goal is to prevent firefighter deaths through safer and more effective fireground tactics.
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