FRSC201 Firefighting Strategy and Tactics
Department of Business, Innovation, and Legal Studies: Fire Science
- I. Course Number and Title
- FRSC201 Firefighting Strategy and Tactics
- II. Number of Credits
- 3 credits
- III. Number of Instructional Minutes
- 2250
- IV. Prerequisites
- FRSC100 (C or better) and FRSC103 (C or better) and FRSC112 (C or better)
- Corequisites
- None
- V. Other Pertinent Information
- This course aligns with Fire and Emergency Services Higher Education (FESHE) associate degree curriculum requirements.
- VI. Catalog Course Description
- This course examines the principle of fire ground control through utilization of personnel, equipment, and extinguish agents related to various emergency scenarios. The focus is on communication, pre-fire planning, and the roles and responsibilities and resource allocation in Incident Command/National Incident Management System (ICS/NIMS).
- VII. Required Course Content and Direction
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Course Learning Goals
Students will:
- Discuss fire behavior as it relates to strategies and tactics;
- Explain the main components of pre-fire planning and identify steps needed for a pre-fire plan review;
- Identify the basics of building construction and how they interrelate to pre-fire planning and strategy and tactics;
- Describe the steps taken during size-up:
- Examine the significance of fire ground communications; and
- Identify and demonstrate the various roles and responsibilities of the National Incident Management System (NIMS) and Incident Management System (ICS) as it relates to strategy and tactics.
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Planned Sequence of Topics and/or Learning Activities
- Fire Chemistry Terms and Concepts
- Heat transfer
- Principle fire characteristics of materials
- Fire classifications
- Extinguishing Equipment
- Extinguishing equipment
- Fire apparatus
- Personnel requirement
- Visual Perception
- Pre-planning
- Size-up
- Pre-Fire Planning
- Concept
- Phases
- Methods
- Format
- Occupancy classifications
- Building types
- Basic Divisions of Tactics
- Size-up
- Facts
- Probabilities
- Own situation
- Decision
- Plan of operation
- Rescue
- Life safety problems of fire
- Determination of life hazard
- Rescue resources and operations
- Exposures
- Principle contributing factors
- Exposure protection operations
- Confinement
- Fire separations
- Fire loading
- Built-in protection
- Operations
- Ventilation
- Relationships to objectives
- Equipment
- Roof types
- Methods
- Salvage
- Relationship to objectives
- Equipment
- Operations during fire
- Operations after fire
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Assessment Methods for Course Learning Goals
Students satisfy the course learning goals via class discussions, written exams, assignments, papers, and/or performance based tasks and projects. -
Reference, Resource, or Learning Materials to be used by Student:
See course syllabus.
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Review/Approval Date -11/00; Course number revised 3/2010; Revised 4/2012; New Core 8/2015; Revised 6/2016