Comprehensive Fire Training Course for Safer Operations

1. Kriska Fire Training Course Objectives

2. Everyone Goes Home Making Your Job Safer Four hour classroom

3. Objectives • Real world of firefighting • Solid fuel fire behavior • Smoke and flammable vapors (gases) • Synthetic materials • Ventilation • Increasing your attack line water flow • Flashover and Backdraft, Whats the difference? • The Way We Have Always Done It • Mission Vision • Pre-Incident Planning • The players • Hazardous Materials • Managing the information

4. Objectives • Truss Construction • Types of truss • Gusset plates • Truss tactics • Size-Up • Laymans Mental Size-up • New Mental Size-up • Four step size-up method • Using your imagination • Getting out of Mission Vision • Thermal Imaging Cameras • Three point search pattern

5. Company Officer.. Supervisor or Co-Pilot? Two hour classroom

6. Class Objective • Time and Resource Management during the emergency response • Discuss how the traditional function of pre-incident planning led to a Non-Traditional idea • Introduce the Company Officer Command Area

7. Up-Front Ventilation using Positive Pressure Attack Six hour classroom Practical live burn if desired

8. Class Objectives • Introduction..Solid fuelFire Behavior..Do we do dumbthings?..Leadership • Technological Advances vs. Increased Risks of Interior Firefighting • Backdraft and Flashover..What’s the difference? • The Way We Have Always Done It” • The “TIME” Element • Positive Pressure • Wind..Fire..Mechanical…Ideal Gas Law • National Institute of Safety and Technology-PPV Test results • Positive Pressure Attack Terminology

9. Class Objectives • Path of Least Resistance • High Risk Area • Low Risk Area • Positive Pressure Equipment Scenarios • Size-up for Up-Front Ventilation using Positive Pressure Attack • Standard Operating Procedure for Positive Pressure Attack

10. Class Objectives • Positive Pressure Attack Residential Scenarios • Specific Type Fires • PPA and specific buildings, vehicles • Positive Pressure Attack Incident Critiques • Doing it Right..Up-Front Ventilation using Positive Pressure Attack

11. Objectives of the Live Burn • Allow you to observe • Incipient stage of the fire • Free burning stage of the fire • Mushrooming caused by resistance • Fire following a path of least resistance • PPV affect on the fire without an exhaust opening • PPV with an exhaust opening

12. Waterloo 2007 Four hour classroom Practical live burn if desired

13. Class Objectives • The Way we have always Done It • In-adequate size ups • No up-front ventilation • No visibility • Super heat • Disorientation • No Pre-Incident Planning

14. Class Objectives • The Risks Have Changed • Smoke detectors • Protective Clothing • Synthetic furnishings • Energy efficient buildings • Construction features

15. Class Objectives • A New way of Thinking • Time and Resource Management during the Response • New Mental Size up • Four Step Building Size up • Mission Vision • Thermal Imaging Camera • Truss Construction • Positive Pressure Attack

16. Objectives of the Live Burn • Allow you to observe • Incipient stage of the fire • Free burning stage of the fire • Mushrooming caused by resistance • Fire following a path of least resistance • PPV affect on the fire without an exhaust opening • PPV with an exhaust opening

17. Ventilation Why?? Eight hour classroom Practical if desired

18. Class Objectives • Disorientation • Fire Behavior Review • Risks have changed (The Enemy) • New Mental Size-Up System/Four Step Size-up Method/Mission Vision • Basic Ventilation Practices • Roof Construction—Red Flag • Positive Pressure Ventilation