FIP-FIP9723 - Fire Control
Course Description
Efficiently and effectively extinguishing fires takes a great deal of knowledge and skills in building construction, hose, streams, nozzles, fire behavior, ventilation, and survival techniques. After students complete this chapter and the related course work, they will be able to distinguish between offensive and defensive strategies, and they will understand the special considerations for fires in large buildings, basements, attics, concealed spaces, above ground level, lumberyards, energized equipment, and flammable gases and liquids. Students will also have the skills to operate hose lines; use fire streams; conduct indirect, direct, and combination fire attacks; operate master stream devices; and extinguish vehicle fires.
Course Outline
skills:Perform a transitional attack. (NFPA 1001: 4.3.10, pp. 650–651, 653–655)Perform a direct attack. (NFPA 1001: 4.3.10, pp. 657–659)Perform an indirect attack. (NFPA 1001: 4.3.10, pp. 657, 660–661)Perform a combination attack. (NFPA 1001: 4.3.10, pp. 662–663)Perform the one-fire fighter method for operating a large handline. (NFPA 1001: 4.3.8, pp. 664–665)Perform the two-fire fighter method for operating a large handline. (NFPA 4.3.8, pp. 664, 666)Operate a deck gun. (NFPA 1001: 4.3.8, pp. 667–668)Deploy and operate a portable monitor. (NFPA 1001: 4.3.8, pp. 667–668)Locate and suppress concealed-space fires. (NFPA 1001: 4.3.10, p. 669)Extinguish an outside trash fire or other outside Class A fire. (NFPA 1001: 4.3.8, pp. 674, 675–676)Extinguish a vehicle fire. (NPFA 1001: 4.3.7, pp. 684–687)Shut off gas utilities. (NFPA 1001: 4.3.18, p. 688)Shut off electric utilities. (NFPA 1001: 4.3.18, pp. 688–689)