Courses
Courses of Study:
Firefighter I & II | Arson | Driver-Operator
| Executive Skills | Fire Prevention | Hazardous Materials | NETC Virtual Campus | NFA Terrorism Response |
NFA Tactical Operations |
NFA Incident Management |
NFA Firefighter Safety |
NFA Leadership |
Wildland Interface |
Fire Science Technology Program
Welcome to MFT&E's Course Listings! Here you'll find a complete listing of all training and education
programs we offer. Look over the course descriptions. If you see a program or course that you are interested
in check the training calendar or contact us for more information.
Please note that additional information regarding the required sequence of courses, course requirements,
and any pre-requisites are available on-line on our Training Page under "Training and Certification Information."
The basic firefighter training modules meet the latest edition of the National
Fire Protection Association (NFPA) 1001 Firefighter Qualification Standard,
as well as all federal and state workplace safety regulations. Meeting
the latest standards means that the techniques, operating procedures and
safety requirements in the training classes are state-of-the-art, and
compatible with modern equipment, techniques, and evolutions.
Firefighter I and II Training
The new curriculum for firefighter training was developed by Jones & Bartlett Publishing and was introduced in January
2005.
Breakdown of Blocks
F51 Block 1 General Knowledge: 2 Days
F52 Block 2 Response: 2 Days
F53 Block 3 Fundamentals: 2 Days
F54 Block 4 Initial Attack Skills: 2 Days
F55 Block 5 Tactical Support Skills: 2 Days
F56 Block 6 Hose / Water Supply: 2 Days
F57 Block 7 Suppression: 2 Days
F58 Block 8 Fight Fire Smart: 2 Days
F59 Block 9 EMS/Vehicle Rescue: 2 Days
F60 Block 10 Wildland/Haz-Mat Awareness: 1 Day
F61 Block 11 FF 1 Academy: Week 1; 6.75 Days
F62 Block 12 FF 1 Academy: Week 2; 7 Days
F63 Block 13 FF 1 Academy: Week 3; 7 Days
F64 Block 14 FF 1 Certification
F65 Block 15 Compliance Fast Trac: 13 Days
F66 Block 16 Bridge from Fast Trac to FFI&II: 10.5 Days
F67 Block 17 FF II Certification
F68 Block 18 Haz-Mat Awareness: 1 Day
F69 Block 19 Haz-Mat Operations: 2 Days
Arson
Arson Detection for the First Responder
Course Code: ADFR
This two-day course is designed specifically to provide a clear definition of the role of initial responder organizations, and to provide essential knowledge to enable them to recognize the potential of an intentionally set fire, preserve evidence, and properly report the information to appropriate officials. The training course includes the following basic topics: fire behavior, critical observations of the first responder, fire cause, scene security and evidence preservation, legal considerations, and reporting of findings.
Class Size: Minimum 14; Maximum 40
Length: 2 Days
Court Preparation and Testimony for First Responders
Course Code: CPTFR
This 2-day course will emphasize the importance of reporting factual events. It also will address the need to improve report-writing skills after witnessing an event, and oral presentation skills if asked to describe the event in a court of law. The intent of this course is to prepare all emergency responders, with emphasis on volunteer firefighters, to present information to the legal system.
Class Size: Minimum 14; Maximum 30
Length: 2 Days
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Driver-Operator Series
EVOC: Emergency Vehicle Operator Course (2000 ed.)
Course Code: DOP1
Students learn the principles of safe emergency response. Subjects covered
includes: firefighter injury/fatality data, liability protection, vehicle
dynamics, inspection, and maintenance. Practical driving competency course
includes eight separate maneuver exercises. This course is approved by
Volunteer Fireman's Insurance Services (VFIS).
Pumps-I Course (1997 ed.)
Course Code: DOP2
Covers the principles of hydraulics and the basic operation of fire department
pumpers. This training limits pumping capacity to 500 gallons per minutes
for safety reasons. Drills include: positioning apparatus, pumping from
tank, pumping from hydrants, pumping from draft, and using pressure control
devices. The course includes classroom and practical exercises.
Pumps-II Course (1997 ed.)
Course Code: DOP3
Designed for students who have completed Pumps-I, this advanced course
is designed for experienced pump operators to practice moving large volumes
of water. Large diameter hose and master stream devices will be used extensively.
Topics include: hydraulics, terminology, pumping from hydrants, tandem
pumping, drafting operations, relay operations, supplying aerials, and
conducting service tests to NFPA standards.
Water Supply Methods
Course Code: DOP4
Course covers large diameter hose (LDH), tanker-shuttle operations, and
water supply limitations. Practical applications include relay pumping,
rural-hitch, and tanker shuttles.
Fire Protection System Support Operations
Course Code: DOP5
Covers the principles and methods of supplying sprinkler and standpipe
systems, calculating required GPM and pump discharge pressure. Practical
applications utilize simulated fire protection systems.
Hydraulics
Course Code: DOP6
Includes basic math refresher, terminology, principles of fluid movement,
hydraulic calculations, and problem-solving.
Pumper Maintenance & Service Testing
Course Code: DOP7
Covers system checks and maintenance, documentation, pumper acceptance
testing, and annual service according to NFPA standards.
Aerial Apparatus Operations
Course Code: DOA1
This course is customized for the community's specific needs in terms
of available apparatus and community characteristics. The course may range
from 16 to 24 hours and covers: safety issues, driver-operator roles and
responsibilities, aerial capabilities and limitations, SOG's, operational
checks and maintenance, and engine and ladder company coordination. Practical
evolutions include: response, spotting, set-up, rescue, and elevated master
stream operations.
Executive Skills Series
Influencing
Course Code: ESS:1
Influencing is considered a critical leadership skill, particularly at the executive level. This course will examine how leaders successfully influence others to accomplish common goals. Formally planning to influence others will be a primary discussion area within the course. Case studies of executives influencing others will be analyzed to illustrate the challenges and opportunities associated with complex situations in the public sector.
Class Size: Minimum 14; Due to the nature of the instructional method, the course is limited to 26 participants.
Length: 2 Days
Leading Diverse Communities Beyond Conflict
Course Code: ESS: LDCBC
The course is intended to be a "launch pad" for action projects that participants will undertake when returning to their jobs. The energy of the course focuses on defining projects and ensuring their success. The participants need to become a support system for each other. The course is a design workshop, a strategy and tactics session, and a rehearsal of the personal, social, political, and professional dynamics that participants must master to accomplish their projects. The National Fire Academy will award certificates of successful completion only upon submission of the action plan.
Class Size: Minimum 14; Maximum 30
Length: 2 Days
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Fire Prevention
Fire Prevention for High-Risk Populations:
Age and Disability Factors
Course Code: FPHRP:ADF
The course is designed for students who work in the field of prevention, safety education, and community leadership positions. Students learn to focus on the factors that contribute to high fire incidence among older adult and very young populations.
Course content includes: personal beliefs and observations about the aging process; developing sensitivities about growing older; characteristics and challenges associated with addressing risk among older adult and very young population groups; the risk-reduction process for older adult populations; reaching into neighborhoods to create change for populations that are at high risk for fire; and fire safety plans/messages targeting high-risk populations based on aging.
Participants take a short multiple-choice exam on key course concepts.
Class size: Minimum 14; Maximum 25
Length: 2 days
Community Risk Issues and Prevention Interventions
Course Code: CRIPI
The course is designed for students who work in the field of prevention. Students learn a basic overview of the three E’s of prevention - education, engineering, and enforcement. The course concludes that the most effective way to combat community risk issues is to develop strategies that use all three E's. The course is designed to provide the motivation and leadership for local organizations to enhance their prevention efforts.
Course content includes: evaluation of the types and levels of community prevention; how injuries, fires, and burns can be prevented; strategies and countermeasures to help people understand the injury, fire, or burn event and reduce the loss; and prevention approaches--behavior changes, legislation, and enforcement and engineering.
Participants take a short multiple-choice exam on key course concepts.
Class Size: Minimum 14; Maximum 25
Length: 2 days
Introduction to National Fire Incident Reporting System 5.0
Course Code: INTRO to NFIRS
This training program is designed specifically to support local fire service organizations, and will assist them in providing data both to their management and to decision-makers, as well as their State uniform fire reporting system. At a local level, the NFIRS data can be used to:
describe a community's fire problem; support budget requests; improve decision-making for allocation of resources; assist in planning for future fire protection; help identify opportunities for scheduling non-emergency activities; evaluate code enforcement programs; and identify target audiences for public fire education programs.
Class Size: Minimum 14; Maximum 27
Length: 2 Days
National Fire Incident Reporting System:
Data Analysis and Problem-Solving Techniques
Course Code: NFIRS:DAPST
NFIRS Data Analysis and Problem Solving Techniques is a two-day course offered on State Weekends. The course is designed for experienced NFIRS users who need enhanced fire incident analysis and reporting skills. This is not an introductory-level course. Exclusive use of the computer classroom provides an environment where students receive step-by-step instruction in Microsoft Excel, pivot table preparation, queering the NFIRS database, and publishing pivot tables and charts on the World Wide Web (www).
Class Size: Minimum 14; Maximum 27
Fire Prevention For First Responders and Small Departments
Course Code: FPSD
(First in a series of Small Community Fire Prevention courses)
This two-day inspirational course stresses awareness, advocacy, and motivational content needed by those who traditionally have been focused on operations (suppression, emergency medical services (EMS), etc.) and who seek to learn new successful approaches appropriate for communities of all sizes, but most especially America's smaller communities. The course focuses on identifying exciting and highly successful tools and approaches for addressing the total fire protection challenge via lessons learned in other communities, resources available, and the means and value of building partnerships and coalitions. Participants will come away empowered to make change and thus build departments that are more effective at serving both customers and members by learning how to manage the fire prevention function better.
Class Size: Minimum 14; Maximum 40
Prevention and Mitigation Advocacy for Small Department Responders
Course Code: PMSD
(Second in a series of Small Community Fire Prevention courses)
This 2-day course stresses fire prevention and mitigation awareness, advocacy, and motivation needed by those who traditionally have been focused on response activities. Participants learn about successful prevention-oriented approaches appropriate for America's smaller communities. The course identifies successful tools, from analysis of the challenges to identification of resources needed to bring about change, and how a department's culture of power, influence, negotiation, and coalition building relates.
Prerequisite: Although not mandatory, successful completion of the first in this series, Fire Prevention for First Responders and Small Departments, is desirable because of its motivational messages and insights toward creating change.
Class Size: Minimum 14; Maximum 40
Marketing Fire Prevention in Your Community
Course Code: MFPC
(Third in a series of Small Community Fire Prevention Courses)
A prevention and mitigation course geared toward the needs of small communities and rural departments. In this course students begin developing a marketing plan for fire prevention using resources from the first two courses and those already in place in their communities. Upon completion of this course, students will be able to continue developing, refining, and applying a marketing plan that will outline target hazard risk, identify significant opponents, and present allies who may be available within their community.
Class Size: Minimum 14; Maximum 40
Length: 2 Days
Preventing Fire Risk Based on Socioeconomic Factors:
Rural and Urban Settings
Course Code: PFRBSF:RUS
The course is designed for students who work in the field of prevention. Students learn to focus on the social and economic factors that contribute to high fire incidence among populations in rural and urban areas. Values, attitudes, and behaviors as well as social and economic characteristics will be evaluated.
Effective change techniques, existing programs, and community collaboration are reviewed to develop effective solutions to community high-risk target groups.
Course content includes: how social and economic factors play a significant role in high incidence of fire, fire deaths, and fire injuries; attitudes, values, and behaviors of populations at high risk for fire; poverty and low education levels may explain up to one-third of the variation in fire deaths; reaching into neighborhoods to create change for populations that are at high risk for fire; and program issues for high-risk groups in rural and urban settings.
Participants take a short multiple-choice exam on key course concepts.
Class Size: Minimum 14; Maximum 25
Length: 2 Days
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Hazardous Materials Response Series
HM Awareness-level
Course Code: HM1
This course provides emergency responders (and other public sector employees)
with the basic knowledge essential to a safe response by stressing hazard
recognition. This is entry-level training that must be completed by all
who respond to known or potential releases of hazardous substances. Courses
are available through your county emergency management agency.
HM Operations-level
Course Code: HM2
*(State Emergency Response Commission Grant Program)
This course provides emergency responders with the knowledge and skills
necessary to manage on-scene operations involving hazardous materials
primarily through defensive measures. This training must be completed
by all who respond to known or potential releases of hazardous substances
and initiate defensive measures or take command. The course focuses on
protecting persons, property, and the environment from the effects of
the release. Activities include incident analysis, risk assessment, personal
protection, decontamination methods, and defensive tactical operations.
Students for this course must have awareness-level training.
HM Technician-level
Course Code: HM3
*(State Emergency Response Commission Grant Program)
This course provides responders with knowledge and skills necessary to
manage, control, and mitigate emergencies involving hazardous materials.
The focus is on protecting persons, property, and the environment from
the effects of the release. Activities include incident analysis, risk
assessment, personal protection, decontamination methods, and tactical
operations of an offensive nature. Students for this course must have
operations-level training.
Initial Response to Hazardous Materials Incidents: Basic Concepts
Course Code: HMBC
This course is designed to give the participant an understanding of the basic concepts and techniques of hazardous materials first response. Instruction is based on 29 CFR 1910.120 (OSHA) and 40 CFR 311 (EPA), but does not include "hands-on" practical applications/simulation exercises.
Class size: 40
Length: 2 days
Initial Response to Hazardous Materials Incidents:
Concept Implementation
Course Code:
IRHMI:CI
This course is designed to reinforce and expand upon information presented in the IRHMI: Basic Concepts course through general application in an operational context. More detail and new concepts will be provided on procedures, usage, and related considerations following the basic chronology of a hazardous materials incident.
Standard: 29 CFR 1910.120 or 40 CFR 311
Class Size: Minimum 14; Maximum 40
Length: 2 Days
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NETC Virtual Campus
Note: The curriculum used in this program is from the National Fire Academy.
Press Release: On-line courses will be moving to a new area of the NFA web site in the Fall of 2006.
The Self-Study Course for Community Safety Educators is a short, fun, "easy-to-take" Web-based course that focuses on how to do a better job of planning, implementing, and evaluating safety programs in your community. The course teaches you how to network effectively with various people in your organization and within your community to accomplish community life safety goals. The course is designed for all public fire and life safety educators--the new safety educator as well as the experienced educator, the volunteer as well as the career community educator. The Self-Study Course for Community Safety Educators is ideal in helping you "get your feet off the ground." It will assist you with some tips and techniques on a variety of topics such as methods for locating partners to assist with community education or techniques for locating resources for your safety programs. The program contains easy-to-read text with a variety of thought-provoking questions, activities, illustrations, and even traps to watch for. The course relies heavily on learning activities embedded throughout the text to encourage the learner to be involved actively with the content, not just read the text from cover to cover and take a final exam. Students electing to take this course must first enroll in the NFA Independent Study Program via the NETC Virtual Campus at www.training.fema.gov and download the course materials. Upon completion of this course, any student wishing to obtain a National Fire Academy certificate will need to complete the online exam successfully and submit a completed FEMA Form 75-5a General Admissions Application Short Form.
This 13-hour self-study course aims to give supervisors in the fire service some fundamental notions and attitudes on stress management, time management, interpersonal communications, motivation, counseling, conflict resolution, and group dynamics. The course relies heavily on learning activities embedded throughout the text to encourage the learner to be involved actively with the content, not just read the text from cover to cover and take a final exam. Students electing to take this course must first enroll in the NFA Independent Study Program via the NETC Virtual Campus at www.training.fema.gov and download the course materials.Upon completion of this course, any student wishing to obtain a National Fire Academy certificate will need to complete the online exam successfully and submit a completed FEMA Form 75-5a General Admissions Application Short Form.
The Q326 Mansion simulation course presents the user with a very large, multistory, single-family dwelling presenting fire spread and ventilation issues and a more complex rescue scenario. Due to the resource demands of this incident, the student is given a second alarm assignment. Upon successful completion of this online simulation course, the user will be able to recognize the unique rescue issues and other issues related to this type of incident, better preparing them to organize and handle an incident of this nature.
Course objectives are the safe removal and treatment of occupants while presenting fire spread and ventilation challenges to the students. A National Fire Academy/United States Fire Administration certificate will be granted upon successful completion of the course evaluation.
This course was developed by the U.S. Fire Administration's National Fire Programs Branch, in partnership with the USFA's Emergency Management Institute, U.S. Department of Agriculture, and the National Wildfire Coordinating Group (NWCG). This foundation level course is a web-based, self-study, interactive equivalent to NWCG I-100. This course integrates the NIMS guidelines and meets the NIMS Baseline Training requirements using an all hazards, all agency approach. It is the first in a series of courses designed to meet all-hazard, all-agency NIMS ICS requirement for operational personnel.
This course was developed by the U.S. Fire Administration's National Fire Programs Branch, in partnership with the USFA's Emergency Management Institute, the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the National Wildfire Coordinating Group (NWCG). This intermediate level course is a web-based, self-study, interactive equivalent to NWCG I-200. This course integrates the NIMS guidelines and meets the NIMS Baseline Training Requirements using an all hazards, all agency approach. It is the second in a series of courses designed to meet all hazard, all agency NIMS ICS requirements for operational personnel.
Serving as an introduction to NFIRS 5.0, this self-study course provides an overview of the data collection system, its modules and data conversion issues. Coding scenario exercises are also included. NFIRS is the comprehensive method for detailed tracking of fire, emergency, and related incident responses. The information that can be recorded in NFIRS can be used by your emergency services organization to:- Track current workloads, develop response metrics and statistics, and help with current asset management - Provide a basis for identifying, developing and implementing new programs, or redirect existing programs. - Generate and support data that may justify the acquisition of additional resources. - Help reduce the needless loss of life and property in both your jurisdiction and throughout the United States.
This 10-hour self-paced, paper-based course is designed to provide the basic awareness training to prepare first responders to respond to incidents of terrorism safely and effectively. Students who successfully complete the exam will be eligible for a National Fire Academy Certificate of Training. Target Audience: Fire, emergency medical, hazmat, incident command and law enforcement responders. It can be downloaded from the USFA Web site at: www.usfa.fema.gov/applications/publications The ERT:SS exam is available online via the NETC Virtual Campus at: www.training.fema.gov. Upon completion of this course, any student wishing to obtain a National Fire Academy certificate will need to complete the online exam successfully and submit a completed FEMA Form 75-5a General Admissions Application Short Form.
This 8-hour self study course provides basic information to enable the structural firefighter to participate in safe and effective operations during a Wildland/Urban Interface incident. This training program is a joint effort of the National Wildfire Coordinating Group and the National Fire Programs Division of the U.S. Fire Administration, designed to identify many of the operational activities and safety concerns for the structural firefighter in the interface. Course content includes wildland fire behavior, safety issues, and operational tasks.
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Emergency Response to Terrorism
Note: The curriculum used in this program is from the National Fire Academy's Emergency Response to Terrorism (ERT) series.
ERT: Basic Concepts
Course Code:
ERTBC
This operations-level course prepares first responders for terrorism
related incidents. Course objectives include life safety-preservation
from biological, nuclear, incendiary, chemical, and explosive attacks
(B-NICE). Also included is an introduction to detection and monitoring.
Pre-requisite: ERT: Self-Study.
ERT: Tactical Considerations-Company Officer
Course Code: ERTTC
This course supplies the responding officer with the strategic and tactical
tools to recognize a hostile act, minimize losses, identify self-protection
measures, establish command, and manage the operations at an incident.
Recommended pre-requisite: ERT: Basic Concepts.
ERT: Tactical Considerations-Haz-Mat
Course Code: ERTHM
Course focuses on security considerations, signs of terrorism, unusual
circumstances, assessing conditions, and strategies for survival. Applications
involving B-NICE events include: evidence preservation, site safety, mitigation,
documentation, and debriefing personnel. Recommended pre-requisites: ERT:
Basic Concepts and HM Operations-level training.
Emergency Response to Terrorism Strategic Considerations for Command Officers
Course Code: ERT:SCCO
This course is designed for the senior-level officer(s) who may be responsible for command of incidents involving terrorism. This 2-day course is intended to build upon existing skills as an Incident Commander and knowledge of terrorism from professional experience or from the Emergency Response to Terrorism: Basic Concepts (ERT:BC) or the ERT: Self Study (ERT:SS).
The class will assist the command officer in preparing an effective response to the consequences of terrorism. For the response to be effective, plans must be in place to guide responders in managing the incident. Incident Commanders must be prepared to operate as part of a multi-agency, multi-discipline, and multi-jurisdictional response.
To address the command and control challenges that likely will confront the Incident Commander, the class consists of lecture supported by case studies and practice scenarios. This will enable the students to apply their knowledge of pre-incident planning, managing emergency incidents, and operating as part of a Unified Command structure.
Course Size: Minimum 14; Maximum 30
Length: 2 Days
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NFA Fire Service Course Design
Fire Service Course Design teaches fire/rescue personnel and allied professionals how to design courses to be used by other instructors. Students identify a training need within their organization as a pre-course assignment. During the class, they apply course principles to create the design of a training program meeting the identified need from the pre-course assignment from their jurisdiction or organization.
The Design Course is being offered July 9-20, 2007 at the National Fire Academy campus in Emmitsburg, Maryland. Download the attached brochure for more information.
NFA Tactical Operations Series
Tactics-I: Preparation
Course Code: MCTOP
Designed to develop the company officer's supervisory and management
capabilities in structural firefighting operations. Includes the company
officer's role in fireground operations, company readiness, communications
process, building construction and fire behavior, and the process of pre-incident
planning.
Tactics-II: Decision-making
Course Code: MCTOD
Critical elements of size-up and decision-making for structural firefighting
operations. Includes the command sequence; arrival reports, resource requirements;
critical, strategic, and tactical decisions; and action planning.
Strategy & Tactics for Initial Company Operations
(Formerly Managing Company Tactical Operations: Tactics)
Course Code: STICO
Students completing this course will be able to explain the purpose and use of the Communications Model and the Quick Access Pre-fire Plan (QAP) in tactical operations at fire incidents; define the relationship between incident priorities, strategy, tactics, and implementation in the Command Sequence; select the appropriate strategic mode based upon consideration of risk/benefit and available resources; describe the six steps required to implement the Tactical Action Model and the factors on which apparatus placement is based; select appropriate ventilation tactics and develop a rescue action plan; select appropriate rescue tactics and develop a rescue action plan; identify and explain the actions required to support fire confinement and extinguishment activities; select and deploy the appropriate hose lines to accomplish fire confinement and extinguishments; describe the correct procedures for deployment of a hose line from a standpipe system; identify tactical considerations for providing a water supply to meet incident needs; identify principles and tactics for establishing water supplies from municipal sources, static sources, and portable sources, for protecting exposures, for achieving salvage, and for achieving overhaul; identify the special construction factors of single-family dwelling involved in fire; demonstrate the ability to use the Communications Model; determine appropriate strategy, select correct tactics, and operate within an appropriate Incident Command System (ICS) organization at a fire in a single-family dwelling.
Class Size: minimum 12; maximum 25
Length: 2 days
Tactics-IV: Simulation
Course Code: MCTOS
Provides intensive application of the firefighting tactics involved in
structural firefighting through simulation. The focus of the program is
on residential (single and multifamily), small commercial, and agricultural
occupancies. This entire course is simulation-based with application of
the Incident Management System (IMS).
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NFA Incident Management Series
IMS: Incident Management System
Course Code:
IMS1
This course prepares fire officers to command structural fire incidents
using up to 25 fire companies. Course combines command strategy with organizational
procedures and tactical considerations. Principles of command procedures
and structure, expanding the organization and unified command are discussed
and applied. Scenarios and simulations using local target hazards include
size-up, initial reports, accountability and tactical worksheets, passing
command and expanding the command organization. Student are advised to
have to have completed Tactics I, II, and III before taking this course
or have significant command experience. The material follows the National
Fire Service IMS Consortium and National Fire Academy ICS Orientation
(I-100). The program uses the IFSTA curriculum that requires each student to purchase the required student manual at $20.00 each. This may be purchased through MFT&E or IFSTA.
Incident Command for Highrise Operations
Course Code: ICHO
Students completing this course will be able to: identify the various highrise construction systems, fire behavior problems, and their impact on strategy, tactics, and life safety concerns; identify strategic and tactical operations and resource needs for highrise firefighting; describe the application of proper ventilation techniques used in highrise operations; explain basic command procedures and Incident Command System (ICS) organizational structure; explain the expanded ICS organization necessary to manage a major highrise incident effectively; and identify roles and responsibilities associated with command and control procedures for major highrise operations; and understanding of the type of building systems existing in highrise buildings.
Students attending should have a: working knowledge of basic ICS organization; working knowledge of strategy and tactics for structural firefighting; and knowledge of building construction; and understanding of the type of building systems existing in highrise buildings.
Course Size: Minimum 14; Maximum 30
Length: 2 Days
Incident Command System for Structural Collapse Incidents
Course Code: ICSSCI
Students completing this course will be able to: describe the aspects of a structural collapse; explain basic command procedures and Incident Command System (ICS) organizational structure; identify various resource levels, types, and capabilities used for structural collapse incidents; identify critical factors and issues that affect scene management; describe all unique operational considerations used at a structural collapse incident; describe all response operations phases associated with a structural collapse incident; and describe the technical rescue expertise and equipment required for safe operations and effective incident management. Students attending should understand, and be able to apply, the ICS concept.
Course Size: Minimum 14; Maximum 30
Length: 2 Days
Introduction to Unified Command for Multi agency and Catastrophic Incidents
Course Code: IUCMCI
This course is designed for those officers who would likely function in a Command or General Staff position during a multi-agency operation. Students will be exposed to lectures and activities designed to promote a better understanding of multi-agency needs and a Unified Command structure. This course is designed to provide an understanding of the requirements of a Unified Command organization and the skills necessary to operate effectively at complex incidents.
Course Size: Minimum 14; Maximum 25
Length: 2 Days
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NFA Firefighter Safety Series
Firefighter Safety & Survival
Course Code: FFSS
This course builds awareness in the critical problems of firefighter
deaths and injuries in emergency and non-emergency situations and provides
risk-reduction skills to help make firefighters safer. It is highly recommended
that every member of the fire service complete this course.
ISO: Incident Safety Officer
Course Code: ISO
This course examines the incident safety officer's role within a command
structure at emergency response situations. Participants will be able
to identify and analyze incident scene safety concerns and communicate
recommended solutions to the command authority.
HSO: Health & Safety Officer
Course Code: HSO
This two-day course examines the health & safety Officer's role in identifying,
evaluating, and implementing policy and procedures that affect health
and safety aspects of emergency responders. Risk analysis, wellness issues,
and other occupational safety issues will be the main emphasis of this
course.
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NFA Leadership Series
Leadership I: Company Success
Course Code: LS1
This course addresses techniques and approaches to problem solving, identifying
and assessing the needs of the company officer's subordinates, running
meetings effectively in the fire service environment, and decision-making
for the company officer.
Leadership II: Personal Success
Course Code: LS2
This course provides the current and prospective company officer with the basic skills and tools needed to perform effectively as a leader in the fire service environment. The course addresses ethics, use and abuse of power at the company-officer level, creativity in the fire service environment, and managing the multiple role of the company officer.
Leadership III: Supervisory Success
Course Code: LS3
This course addresses when and how to delegate to subordinates, assessing
personal leadership styles through situational leadership, when and how
to discipline subordinates, and coaching/monitoring techniques for the
company officer.
Managing in a Changing Environment
Course Code: MCE
Managing in a Changing Environment is the second of two courses in the subject area of midlevel management covers the skills and techniques midlevel managers will need to provide leadership and direction for their departments. Content includes an overview of significant economic, social, political, and technological influences affecting fire service operations. Students will have the opportunity to identify and relate these influences to their personal and professional situations; and to practice strategies for managing changes resulting from those influences.
Class Size: Minimum 14; Maximum 40
Length: 2 Days
Standard: NFPA 1021, Levels I-IV
Shaping the Future
Course Code: STF
Shaping the Future, the first of two courses in the subject area of mid-level management, covers the skills and techniques midlevel managers will need to provide leadership and direction for their departments. The first module focuses on identifying opportunities and/or problems. Topics include environmental scanning, paradigm shifts, and methods for reframing problems accurately. The second module deals with group problem-solving techniques. The third module explains the need to quantify, justify, and communicate decisions so they will be implemented effectively. Managing change will be discussed in the final module. Topics include why people resist change, overcoming that resistance, and monitoring and evaluating the change before, during, and after its implementation.
Course Size: Minimum 14; Maximum 40
Length: 2 Days
Standard: NFPA 1021, Levels I-IV
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Wildland Interface
Introduction to Wildland/Urban Interface Firefighting for the Structural Company Officer
Course Code: IWUIFSCO
Students completing this course will be able to: describe a Wildland and Wildland/Urban Interface environment; describe considerations in the wildland environment that may be different in the structural environment; describe wildland firefighter tactical approaches; identify equipment considerations; identify communications considerations; identify command and control reporting issues; describe the factors that affect the start and spread of wildland fires; describe fuel considerations in wildland incidents; describe topography considerations in wildland incidents; describe weather considerations in wildland incidents; recognize situations that indicate problem or extreme wildland fire behavior; identify the 18 Watch Out Situations; identify the 10 Standard Firefighting Orders; conduct an incident size-up, including safety considerations; identify typical tasks involved, deployment concerns, and safety issues in a wildland or Wildland/Urban Interface incident when assigned various functions.
Class Size: Minimum 14; Maximum 25
Length: 2 Days
Cooperative Leadership Issues in Wildland/Urban Interface Operations
Course Code: CLIWUIO
Designed to provide students with the essential tools and skills to operate safely in a wildland/urban interface incident. Designed in a modular format to be offered as a 2-day course or optional modules after completing Command and Control of Wildland/Urban Interface Fire Operations for the Structural Chief Officer. Course content covers strategy development (simulation exercise), overview of the emergency management plan, new development issues, working with property owners, environmental issues, cultural issues, historic issues, news media, and cooperative leadership (simulation exercise).
Class Size: Minimum 14; Maximum 25
Length: 2 Days
Command and Control of Wildland/Urban Interface Fire Operations for the Structural Chief Officer
Course Code: CCWUIFOSCO
Designed to provide students with the essential tools and skills to operate safely in a wildland/urban interface incident. Course content covers interface incidents, fire behavior, safety, and operational considerations.
Class Size: Minimum 14; Maximum 25
Length: 2 Days
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Fire Science Technology Program Courses
CHM-101 Chemistry
This survey non-laboratory course is designed to acquaint the student
with the broad principles of chemistry as they relate to application and
hazards in the fire fighting field. The survey includes basic chemical
terminology, structure of matter, atomic bonding, molecular theory of
matter, chemical and physical change, and the general states of matter,
gases, liquids and solids. Discussion of the more common elements, compounds
they form, and the resulting hazards and uses, completes the course with
attention to nuclear applications, pesticides and waste disposal. (3 Credits)
FT-110 Fire Inspector
This course is a basic study of fire expecting and code enforcement principles.
The student will learn the basics of inspections the identification of
common hazards, the basics of special inspections, and the use of NFPA
101 Life Safety Codes. (3 Credits)
FT-112 Fire Protection Systems
This course is designed to acquaint the student with the various extinguishing
agents and with engineering them into fire protection systems, including
portable extinguishers, sprinkler systems, detection systems, and fire
alarm systems. (3 Credits)
FT-113 Fire Service Building Construction
A study of building methods and design, as related to fire protection.
Included in the course of study are elementary blueprint-reading, building
materials, types of construction, fire protection features, building code
standards, fire effects of buildings and evaluation of fire damage. (3
Credits)
FT-114 Fire Administration
This is a comprehensive course that takes a broad look at modern fire
service from a management perspective. It examines the emerging issues
in fire-service management, the special problems, the growing responsibilities,
and the prognosis. This course is essential for all fire officers or anyone
aspiring to become one. (3 Credits)
FT-116 Introduction to Fire Protection
This course is designed to be the initial course of the Fire Science
Technology program. It is recommended for fire personnel in small departments
and short-service personnel. The course is a survey of the fire protection
field, with emphasis on developing an awareness of history, organization,
trade groups, federal efforts, state efforts and local efforts. (3 Credits)
FT-126 FT Student Live-In Program I
This course, one in a continuous series of Service Learning courses,
provides the Fire Science Technology student with experiential learning
opportunities in the field of fire protection. Service Learning credits
are available to the student for each semester with a maximum of four
credits awarded. The student will live at an area fire station and become
a fully participating member of that department. The student will learn
and practice job responsibilities in the functional areas of fire suppression,
fire prevention, equipment maintenance, and facility maintenance. The
student will keep a log of his/her activities and reflect on experiences
in regular group meetings. This course is available only to full time,
matriculated Fire Science Technology students participating in the Southern
Maine Community College Live-In Program. (1 Credit)
FT-127 FT Student Live-In Program II
This course, one in a continuous series of Service Learning courses,
provides the Fire Science Technology student with experiential learning
opportunities in the field of fire protection. Service Learning credits
are available to the student for each semester with a maximum of four
credits awarded. The student will live at an area fire station and become
a fully participating member of that department. The student will learn
and practice job responsibilities in the functional areas of fire suppression,
fire prevention, equipment maintenance, and facility maintenance. The
student will keep a log of his/her activities and reflect on experiences
in regular group meetings. This course is available only to full time,
matriculated Fire Science Technology students participating in the Southern
Maine Community College Live-In Program. (1 Credit)
FT-199 Special Problems in Fire Protection
An arrangement to provide an opportunity for students to pursue special
areas of study with advisement of a faculty member. Generally limited
to students attending the SMCC campus. A formal proposal will be required,
with a copy on file, with the Dean of Academics. (3 Credits)
FT-211 Fire Investigation I
This course is designed to develop a basic investigative ability in fire
officers. The course focuses on the acquisition of field information and
data collection. (3 Credits)
FT-215 Fire Ground Operations
This course offers basic tactics and strategies to the newer firefighter.
The course looks at three major response apparatus and explores the internal
structure and skills needed to operate at the scene of a fire. (3 Credits)
FT-216 Hazardous Materials
Because of the ever-increasing rate at which new industrial materials
are being introduced into our modern world, and because it is the fire-fighter
or fire-protection specialist who must deal with the hazards associated
with these new chemicals, this is a particularly valuable course. Some
of the areas of study include flammable materials, pressurized cases,
cryogenics, oxidizing agents, corrosives, explosive, and toxic materials.
The student will become familiar with Federal laws which govern the handling
of hazardous materials. (3 Credits) Prerequisite(s): CHM-101
FT-217 Fire Service Hydraulics
This course of study includes water supply, principles of water dynamics,
pumps and fire ground hydraulics. Because of the nature of this subject,
the student should be well versed in mathematics, particularly algebra,
before enrolling in this course. (3 Credits) Prerequisite(s): MAT-108
FT-218 Fire & Safety Educator
This course is designed to meet the requirements of the NFPA 1035, the
professional qualification standards for Public Fire and Safety Educator
I and II. The course combines student activities, instructor presentations
and community-based projects to develop skills and knowledge in the field.
The course will provide the student with the knowledge to design a public
fire and life safety program, organize a budget to meet the needs of the
program, and present a fire safety or life safety education presentation.
(3 Credits)
FT-219 Tactics & Strategy
This course is designed to give the student an opportunity to apply the
various principles of fire-control learned in other classes to various
fire problems. The importance of pre-planning and a coordinated fire-attack
are stressed. It is suggested that a student not enroll in this course
until he/she has completed most of the other fire classes, unless waived
by the department chairperson. (3 Credits) Prerequisite(s): 15 credits
in FST
FT-220 Instructional Techniques
This course is designed to assist company officers and acting officers
in teaching fire-service-oriented subjects and developing an understanding
of the various methods of teaching fire-service occupational subjects.
This course will aid the student in preparing instructor guide sheets
and help them to recognize and practice the effective use of other instructor
resource materials. (3 Credits)
FT-225 Fire Service Leadership
This course is designed to develop a foundation of leadership skills
for the fire officer. Course content will include the identification of
leadership styles, group dynamics, diversity issues, conflict resolution,
managing change and problem solving. This course will emphasize personal
leadership development and supervisory skills. (3 Credits)
FT-226 FT Student Live-In Program III
This course, one in a continuous series of Service Learning courses,
provides the Fire Science Technology student with experiential learning
opportunities in the field of fire protection. Service Learning credits
are available to the student for each semester with a maximum of four
credits awarded. The student will live at an area fire station and become
a fully participating member of that department. The student will learn
and practice job responsibilities in the functional areas of fire suppression,
fire prevention, equipment maintenance, and facility maintenance. The
student will keep a log of his/her activities and reflect on experiences
in regular group meetings. This course is available only to full time,
matriculated Fire Science Technology students participating in the Southern
Maine Community College Live-In Program. (1 Credit)
FT-227 FT Student Live-In Program IV
This course, one in a continuous series of Service Learning courses,
provides the Fire Science Technology student with experiential learning
opportunities in the field of fire protection. Service Learning credits
are available to the student for each semester with a maximum of four
credits awarded. The student will live at an area fire station and become
a fully participating member of that department. The student will learn
and practice job responsibilities in the functional areas of fire suppression,
fire prevention, equipment maintenance, and facility maintenance. The
student will keep a log of his/her activities and reflect on experiences
in regular group meetings. This course is available only to full time,
matriculated Fire Science Technology students participating in the Southern
Maine Community College Live-In Program. (1 Credit)
FT-EL1 Fire Science Technology Elective 1
(3 Credits)
FT-EL2 Fire Science Technology Elective 2
(3 Credits)
FT-X90 Fire In American Society
This course traces the challenges faced by the early settlers in the
New World, how they protected themselves, their homes, and their property
from the ravages of fire. The evolution of building construction and its
impact on how fires reacted, laws relating to maintaining fire as a friend
and how to control it as a foe, the equipment used to combat fires and
the water supply to maintain the battle will be examined in detail. Major
fires in American history will be examined to determine how they changed
the very fabric of the American lifestyle. (3 Credits)
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