Hazardous Materials & Weapons of Mass Destruction

Catalog description

Provides the awareness, skills, and knowledge needed for entry-level fire fighters to recognize and identify hazardous materials and weapons of mass destruction (WMD) while isolating hazards, denying entry, and initiating required notification. At the operations level, this course provides the skills and knowledge needed to identify incident scope to select, use, and inspect protective equipment, perform emergency decontamination and assigned tasks at a hazardous materials/WMD incident. This includes product control techniques and the ability to evaluate and report incident progress. 16.00 hours lecture and 8.00 hours laboratory. (Pass/No Pass only)