FIR 101 - Introduction to Fire and Emergency Services

Credits: 3

This course gives the learner and extensive and comprehensive view concerning fire protection and emergency services; career openings in, not only fire protection, but corresponding fields; the prevalent culture and history of emergency services; fire loss concepts and analysis; the structure and function of both public and private fire safety services fire departments as they relate to and with local governments; regulations that affect fire services; fire service terminology; particular and explicit fire protection functions; fundamental fire chemistry, both inorganic and organic, along with physics basic introduction to fire safety systems; introduction to fire strategies, and lifesaving procedures

Theory: 3