Strategy and Tactics

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Three Lecture. This course provides the principles of fire ground control through utilization of personnel, equipment, and extinguishing agents Students will be able to: 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, strategy, and tactics; describe the steps taken during size-up; examine the significance of fire ground communications; identify the roles of the national incident management system (nims) and incident management system (ics) as it relates to strategy and tactics; demonstrate the various roles and responsibilities in ics/nims. Prerequisite(s): FSC 180