Objectives

1. Identify how to initiate the response to a reported emergency.
2. Identify how to transmit and receive messages via the fire department radio.
3. Demonstrate how to use self-contained breathing apparatus (SCBA) during emergency operations.
4. Demonstrate how to respond on apparatus to an emergency scene.
5. Demonstrate how to force entry into a structure.
6. Demonstrate how to set up ground ladders.
7. Describe how to clean and check ladders, ventilation equipment, SCBA, ropes, salvage equipment, and hand tools.
8. Demonstrate how to attack an interior structure fire.
9. Demonstrate how to extricate a victim entrapped in a motor vehicle.
10. Explain how to assist rescue operation teams.
11. Explain how to connect a fire department pumper to a water supply.
12. Identify those situations where hazardous materials/WMD are present.
13. Identify the fire, explosion, and health hazard information using the current edition of the DOT Emergency Response Guidebook
14. Explain how to survey the incident to identify the containers and materials involved to determine whether hazardous materials/WMD have been released.
15. Identify each tank car by type.
16. Identify the markings indicating container size, product contained, and/or site identification numbers.
17. Given examples of hazardous materials incidents, identify the name(s) of the hazardous material(s).
18. Identify and list the surrounding conditions that should be noted when a hazardous materials/WMD incident is surveyed.
19. Explain how to estimate the potential harm within the endangered area at each incident.
20. Explain how to determine whether available personal protective equipment is applicable to performing assigned tasks.
21. Identify when emergency decontamination is needed.
22. Demonstrate the ability to don, work in, and doff the equipment provided to support mission-specific tasks.
23. Demonstrate the ability to set up and implement mass decontamination operations for ambulatory and nonambulatory victims.
24. Explain how to select a technical decontamination procedure that will minimize the hazard and spread of contamination.
25. Identify procedures for determining whether the items have been fully decontaminated.
26. Describe the potential criminal violation and identify the law enforcement agency having investigative jurisdiction for hazardous materials/WMD incidents.
27. Identify the options for each response objective.
28. Describe detection or monitoring equipment suitable for detecting or monitoring solid, liquid, or gaseous hazardous materials/WMD.
29. Demonstrate the field test and operation of each device and interpret the readings.
30. Describe the feasibility of conducting victim rescue and recovery operations at an incident involving a hazardous material/WMD.
31. Identify and describe the unique tasks and operations encountered at illicit laboratory scenes. 

Objectives

1. Define and describe how an incident management system will be utilized during all sizes and types of emergencies.
2. Describe supervisory levels of the command structure that can be utilized in each situation depending on the nature of the incident.
3. Determine which levels and modules are to be implemented to control an incident.
4. Describe the history and evolution of emergency operations planning.
5. Detail the various parts of an emergency operation plan for a small city.
6. Apply an emergency operations plan to an incident.
7. Assess the operations of an emergency operations plan during a simulation.  

Objectives

1. Describe and discuss the basic history of codes and the code making process.
2. Utilize and apply codes during review and inspections.
3. Discuss and describe the principles of fire.
4. Explain how fire can be extinguished and utilize this knowledge in reviewing extinguishing and detection systems.
5. Explain water and its effect on fire.
6. Explain the science behind and the operation of other fixed suppression systems.
7. Explain the science behind and the operation of major types of detection systems. 

Objectives

1. Apply fundamental principles of fire tactics to the complexities of fireground conditions.
2. Formulate procedures for the effective development and application of pre-fire plans.
3. Effectively cope with definitive fire emergency problems.
4. Insure that tactics employed attempt to mitigate problems with firefighter safety and survival while still providing the necessary protection to the citizens they serve. 

Objectives

1. Provide descriptions and needs for the various types of leadership styles discussed.
2. Review their "style" and equate it to the type of leader they wish to emulate.
3. Delineate the roles of a leader in the fire service.
4. Discuss the various types of situations that may confront a leader in the fire service and how they would react.
5. Interpret Crew Resource Management as it should be used in the Fire Service today. 

Objectives

1. Discuss various types of governments that fire departments work under and how that may impact the service.
2. Discuss and provide insight into operating skills required to manage a fire department, which includes but not limited to budgeting, scheduling, organizing, and personnel.
3. Explain and utilize various management theories and principles in situations that occur at the company level. 

Objectives

The fire department is a business and the law always affects business. The fire service also deals with criminal investigation and an understanding of criminal law is important.

1. To provide an understanding of the court and legal system.
2. To provide information about criminal law, as it relates to fire investigation.
3. To provide an understanding of business law, as it relates to fire protection.
4. To provide the student with an understanding of torts.