FIRS 148 — RESCUE SYSTEMS I – 1.5 Units
Grading: Pass/No Pass Option Notes: 1. Students are required to provide personal protective equipment. 2. This course may be repeated any number of times for credit by persons who are legally mandated to meet training requirements as a condition of continued paid or volunteer employment. Class Hours: 18 lecture/27 lab total This course is designed to train paid or volunteer firefighters and emergency medical personnel in vertical and structural collapse rescue techniques. Students will learn about team organization, rescue, and environmental considerations; use of ropes, knot s, rigging and pulley systems; descending, rappelling, and belaying tools and techniques; subsurface rescue techniques; use of cribbing, wedges, cutting/prying and hydraulic tools; use of fire service ladders in specialized rescue situations, and day and night rescue exercises.