Introduction to Fire and Emergency Services    3 s.h

Catalog description

This course gives the learner an extensive and comprehensive view concerning fire protection and emergency services; career openings in fire protection and 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.