Fire Science

Instruction in medically correct initial and advanced life support treatment of critically ill or injured persons using good medical judgment. Students are prepared for cognitive (knowledge), psychomotor (skills), and affective (behavior) learning domains at the Emergency Medical Technician level. This course is the first in a series of 4 preparing students for the NYS psychomotor and written examinations and to pass the National Registry psychomotor and written examinations at the completion of the 4th course. Prerequisites: Current NYS EMT certification. Eligible to enroll in ENGL 1010 and MATH 1150 or higher. Lecture/ Laboratory.

Continuation of instruction in medically correct initial and advanced life support treatment of critically ill or injured persons using good medical judgment. Students are prepared for cognitive (knowledge), psychomotor (skills), and affective (behavior) learning domains at the Emergency Medical Technician level. This course is the second in a series of 4 preparing students for the NYS psychomotor and written examinations and to pass the National Registry psychomotor and written examinations at the completion of the 4th course. Prerequisites: Current NYS EMT certification. Eligible to enroll in ENGL 1010 and MATH 1150 or higher. Successful completion of EMS 2100 Foundations of Paramedic I. Lecture/ Laboratory.

Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) course is designed to prepare rescuers with the emergency medical knowledge and skills necessary to care for pre-hospital patients of all ages. Students will experience a wide variety of medical and traumatic conditions including: trauma, medical emergencies, environmental injuries, emergency childbirth, and psychological emergencies. Students successfully completing this course will be eligible to take the New York State certification exam for emergency medical technician.

This course introduces students to the approaches, principles, and theories of emergency management. The course will instruct students on the phases of mitigation, preparedness, response, and recovery. Students will analyze incidents, emergencies, disasters, and catastrophes. The analysis will be reviewed against current policies, roles, and duties of emergency management personnel. Students will review the importance of emergency management throughout the course and the direct need for this on a community and nationwide scale.

This course introduces students to methods for communities and organizations to recognize and respond to disaster or emergency situations. This course will provide an overview of the Incident Management/Command System (ICS/IMS) and will focus on strategies and tactics used by emergency managers and responders in a disaster situation. Proactive techniques, emergency operations planning, assessing effects, and responding to high-risk hazards will be discussed. Other topics will include decreasing operation interruptions, emergency response support function, and maintaining community-lifelines.

This course elaborates on emergency management collaboration to support the needs of individuals, households, communities, states, and the federal government in providing support and services after catastrophic or emergency incidents. This course will review pre-disaster planning and focus on understanding recovery and rebuilding communities after disasters and emergencies strike. This course addresses different types of hazards, their interactions, and the consequences of disasters. This course will discuss current theories and principles for recovery planning, case studies from past disasters and discuss community resilience following and planning for disasters. Students will explore the response phase of emergency management including hazard detection, warning, evacuation, sheltering, search and rescue, emergency medical care, fatality management, and stress counseling. The decision-making process in the areas of transportation, politics, special needs populations, communication, legal issues, and record keeping is explained. A review of debris management and assessment is covered as well as ways to reduce vulnerability.

This course will detail the principles of leadership with a focus in emergency management. Students will learn the necessary skills to lead and influence others in various settings. This course will focus on interpersonal areas such as conflict resolution, group dynamics, leadership, and influence with the emergency response team and the public. Students will discuss root cause analysis and problem solving during various situations. Students will discuss creative solutions to a wide array of complications and the decision-making skills that are imperative to successfully managing a team. This course will give an overview of budgeting, finance, and administrative roles that are needed to successfully implement an emergency management organization including promotions, retention, and human resources.

Based on the individual job performance requirements from NFPA 1407. Course content will enable firefighters to recognize fire ground conditions that contribute to firefighter disorientation and/or entrapment, to have knowledge of what is necessary to ensure their safety and that of their partners or crew members. Students will learn when to call a MAY DAY and perform self-rescue techniques when disoriented, separated, or when needing to exit a structure in an emergency. This course requires students to perform a number of practical evolutions with self-contained breathing apparatus (SCBA) and includes both horizontal and vertical self-rescue.

Interior Firefighting Operations (IFO) course. The second segment of firefighting operations including firefighter safety, fire suppression, personal protective equipment, victim removal, forcible entry, tactical ventilation, hose advancement, and self-contained breathing apparatus (SCBA) consumption and usage drills.. Hands-on skills to include Task Oriented Air Consumption (TOAC) drills, structure and vehicle fires, fire hose presentations, and forcible entry. Students will also learn hazardous material recognition and management.

Course Description from the College Catalog: Students will understand the seriousness of emergency vehicle operation based on objectives from National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) 1002 Fire Apparatus Driver/Operator. This course will target awareness of potential for tragedy and financial loss with any emergency vehicle collision and the moral and legal responsibilities in operating an emergency vehicle.

Basic Exterior Firefighting Operations (BEFO) course. The first segment of firefighting operations including firefighter safety, personal protective equipment, and understanding basic fire dynamics. Hands-on skills to include laddering, ropes, knots, fire hose presentations, and forcible entry.

Course Description from the College Catalog: The Fire Officer course addresses the job performance requirements of Chapter 4 of NFPA 1021, Standards for Fire Officer Professional Qualifications. This course introduces topics such as officer communication, leadership and supervision, and the officer’s duties. The student will learn basic human resource management, administrative functions, community relations and delivery of emergency services. The student will apply critical thinking and systematic assessment approach to fire and emergency response while working to serve the community. The Fire Officer student must complete all five modules to earn the Fire Officer I course credit.

This course includes the responsibilities of pump operators, hydraulics and friction loss, pump controls and accessories, fire streams, pumper practices, drafting and pump evolutions, and using the fire pump at the hydrant. Lecture, hands on demonstrations, and practice sessions are included.