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Course Criteria
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25.00 Credits
Prerequisite: None. Designed to equip the student with the techniques and methods for using rope, webbing, hardware friction devices, and litters in low angle rescue situations. Areas covered include: Rope and related equipment, anchor systems, safety lines, stretcher lashing and rigging, mechanical advantage systems and single line and two line rescue systems. 4 hours lecture and 20 hours laboratory.
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25.00 Credits
Prerequisite: None. This course is designed to train fire service personnel in hands-on application of the techniques necessary to safely effect a rescue from an excavation or trenching cave-in. Topics include critical considerations while responding to trenching emergencies, evaluation of cave-in scenes, basic life support procedures and temporary protection for victims, specialized tool usage, shoring techniques and below grade rescue safety procedures. 4 hours lecture and 12 hours laboratory.
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25.00 Credits
Prerequisite: None. This course prepares the student for fire suppression and rescue operations in the high-rise building environment. It is approached from an operational basis and is applied to both small and large highrise buildings. Topics include prefire planning, building inventory, ventilation methods, water supply, elevators, life safety and application of the Incident Command System and specific responsibilities. 8 hours lecture and 16 hours laboratory.
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25.00 Credits
Prerequisite: None. This course utilizes the burning of buildings to provide students with handson firefighting experience in fire behavior within a building, ventilation, self-contained breathing apparatus, use and survival techniques, interior fire attack, exterior fire attack, and basic fire investigation as it relates to fire fighting. 6 hours lecture and 18 hours laboratory.
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25.00 Credits
Prerequisite: None. This course utilizes live fire situations to provide hands-on experience in combating fire involving liquefied petroleum gas and flammable liquid fires. Subjects include flammable liquid and gas fire behavior, safety, extinguishing agents, transportation fires, water flow requirements and live fire fighting. 6 hours lecture and 6 hours laboratory.
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5.00 Credits
Prerequisite: None. This wildland firefighting course provides information, methods and techniques for utilization of: The California Fire and Rescue Mutual Aid Plan, Incident Command System, wildland firefighting strategy and tactics, structure triage, terminology, survival skills and operating safely in a wildland firefighting incident. 14 hours lecture and 2 hours laboratory.
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1.50 Credits
Prerequisite: None. This course introduces recruit firefighters to the duties required of the trainee volunteer firefighter. It is comprised of the minimum training requirements for entry-level volunteer firefighters for the Riverside County Fire Department. Subjects covered include fire station orientation, fire terminology, communicable disease awareness, tools used in firefighting, protective clothing and safety equipment, storage and deployment of fire hose. 31 hours lecture and 19 hours laboratory.
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25.00 Credits
Prerequisite: None. This course is for experienced career firefighters who have completed the volunteer trainee and certified volunteer firefighter programs and are ready to advance to the next level of training and responsibility. Students will learn fundamentals of water tender driving and pumping, and be prepared for more complex emergency response situations. 8 hours lecture and 8 hours laboratory.
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1.00 Credits
Prerequisite: None. Advisory: California Firefighter I Certification. Limitation on enrollment: Class B California Driver's License or California Firefighter Restricted License. This course is designed to provide the student with information on driving techniques for emergency vehicles and techniques of basic inspection and maintenance of emergency vehicles, including actual driving exercises under simulated emergency conditions. 24 hours lecture and 16 hours laboratory.
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1.00 Credits
Prerequisite: None. Advisory: California Firefighter I Certification. Limitation on enrollment: Class B California Driver's License or California Firefighter Restricted License. This course is designed to provide the student with information, theory, methods and techniques for operating fire service pumps. 24 hours lecture and 16 hours laboratory.
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