Fire and Emergency Services

Course Length

1 Semester

Emergency and fire-management services are essential infrastructure components of a community. Fire and Emergency Services is a semester-long course that provides students with the basic structure of these organizations as well as the rules and guidelines that govern pre-employment education requirements. The vehicles, equipment, and emergency-mitigations strategies that are commonly used in the emergency and fire-management field are also explored.

Throughout the course, students gain an understanding of the goals of an emergency-management service and how they are implemented and managed, including personnel, budget, and labor-management challenges in the organization. Various preparedness plans are discussed as students explore typical characteristics and frameworks of modern emergency and fire-management organizations.

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Overview of Concepts

• Unit 1: Modern Emergency and Fire Management Services
• Unit 2: Tools of the Trade
• Unit 3: Emergency and Fire Management Skills in Action
• Unit 4: Organizing and Managing an Emergency and Fire Management System
• Unit 5: Advanced Situations for Emergency and Fire Operations