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Course Criteria
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1.60 Credits
This 16 hour course will provide the company officer with skills to function effectively as the safety officer at fire department incident operations. The primary focus shall be on developing skills through recognition of cues which affect personal safety (safety cues). Prerequisite: NFA Incident Command and Haz Mat Operations
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0.80 Credits
The purpose of this open challenge exam process is to identify and recognize emergency service personnel whose accomplishments in training and education meets or exceeds nationally recognized NFPA 1001 Standards for Fire Service Professional Qualifications. Information on the certification process, prerequisites, and study guide information can be obtained from study guide information can be obtained from located on the Pennsylvania State Fire Academy website. Prior to the test date, the student must submit an original/typed Certification Application, including all prerequisites to the Shumaker Public Safety Center; Fire Training Unit.
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1.60 Credits
This course is designed to build upon and refine the skills and the knowledge required for providing effective Truck Company Operations. Students will perform practical evolutions in order to further refine their abilities to effectively and safely operate on the fire ground as a member of a truck company. Prerequisites: Interior Fire Fighter and Truck Company Operations I. Minimum Age of student on first day of class: 18
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1.60 Credits
This course teaches firefighters to operate emergency vehicles. Course topics include defensive driving, emergency response vehicle maintenance, vehicle laws, and a driver training obstacle course. Students must provide department appartus must be at least 18 years old and also possess a valid Pennsylvania Driver's License.
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0.30 Credits
This course provides the firefighter the basic knowledge to reinforce the evidence based research conducted by UL, NIST, ATF, and other fire service organizations.
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8.00 Credits
This course is designed to review fire dynamics as they relate to fire growth/development in structures and permits students to witness flashover conditions in a controlled environment.
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0.40 Credits
This introductory course is designed to meet the NFPA requirements for awareness-level training of emergency response personnel who may be called upon to respond to water rescue related emergencies. Topics covered include preplanning responses to water rescue emergencies, scene safety, dynamics of moving water, communication, incident command, and an introduction to the rescue sequence utilized when operating on the scene of water rescue incidents. This course does not certify personnel to perform shore- based or in-water rescue techniques.
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1.60 Credits
This course provides an introduction to rope rescue and current rope technology. This hands-on course emphasizes personnel safety, rescue techniques and equipment, knots and hitches, anchor points, harnesses and rappelling, rope construction, rope strength, litter tie-in, belays, and extensive practical activities. Each class participant will practical activities. Each class participant will and a 15'x1 piece of tubular webbing. Students must provide clean leather work gloves, ankle-supporting footwear, helmet with chin strap, safety glasses, and proper dress for all weather conditions.
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1.60 Credits
This course provides rescue personnel with the knowledge and skills to rescue and remove a patient from an area with the assistance of rope systems. The students will learn to build basic haul systems, ascending systems and advanced descending techniques. Students are instructed in one- person rescue procedures and low-angle stokes evolutions. Students must provide clean leather work gloves, ankle- supporting footwear, helmet with chin strap, safety glasses, and proper dress for all weather conditions. Each class participant will receive a Technical Rescue Riggers Guide. Prerequisite: Rope Rescue I.
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1.80 Credits
This course provides students with the knowledge and skills to assist with patient removal from vertical situations. Topics include top belay systems, load sharing and load distributing anchor systems, ascending systems, compound mechanical advantage systems and vertical rescue situations involving individuals trapped in an elevated position or hanging in fall protection. Prerequisites: Rope/High Angle Rescue II Minimum Age of student on the first day of class: 16
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