Basic Firefighter – Module I

This course provides the firefighter candidate/recruit with basic knowledge and
skills to perform various fire ground operations as a firefighter on emergency scenes.
The candidate/recruit will learn about safety during all phases of a firefighters
career, the personal protective equipment that is required for training and every
emergency response, and how to properly don it for use and doff it after use. The
candidate/recruit will learn about the dynamics of fire through fire behavior and
how to extinguish the different phases of fires with either portable fire extinguishers
or through fire suppression attacks and techniques. The candidate/recruit will also
learn the three tactical priorities of Life Safety, Incident Stabilization, and Property
Conservation that have to be achieved on every fireground. Basic knowledge and skills will be provided to the candidate/recruit so they can achieve the tactical
priorities through various fireground operations such as: response & size- up, forcible
entry, ladders, search & rescue, ventilation, water supply, fire hose, fire nozzles,
fire streams, salvage, and overhaul. Upon completion of this course the student
emergency responder candidate/recruit will have the basic skills and knowledge
to be able to obtain a certificate of completion or become certified through the
appropriate governing agency for the following: 1. Module I This course meets
the requirements NFPA 1001 Standard for Fire Fighter Professional Qualifications
and all other state, local, and provincial occupational health and safety regulatory
requirements.