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May 10, 2025
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2025-2026 College Catalog
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FSC 252 - Fire Service Strategy and Tactics 3 Contact Hours, 3 Credits 3 lecture periods 0 lab periods
Principles and tactics of fire service ground control. Includes fireground factors and management, command operations and functions, life safety, personnel, equipment, and extinguishing agents.
Information: This class is in compliance with the Fire and Emergency Services Higher Education (FESHE) model curriculum. This is the capstone course for degree.
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Course Learning Outcomes
- Identify the roles of the National Incident Management System (NIMS) and Incident Command Systems (ICS) as related to strategy and tactics, and create a strategy and evaluate rescue options.
- Explain the components of building construction and why pre-fire planning and review is significant to the success of life safety and fire-ground management.
- Define the importance of fire-ground communications and the components of the initial radio report.
- Explain the factors during size-up, significance of each factor, and analyze their relationship to effective fire-ground management.
- Compare an offensive fire attack to a defensive fire attack, explaining the basics of each and identifying the rationale for each strategy.
- Define and describe the significance of overhaul and salvage at emergency incidents.
Performance Objectives:
- Discuss fire behavior as it relates to strategies and tactics.
- Create a strategy and implement appropriate tactics.
- Identify and categorize various types of fire apparatus and extinguishing equipment.
- Identify the basics of building construction and how they interrelate to pre-fire planning and strategy and tactics.
- Describe the steps taken during size-up.
- Explain the main components of pre-fire planning and identify steps needed for a pre-fire plan review.
- Identify the roles of the National Incident Management System (NIMS) and Incident Command Systems (ICS) as related to strategy and tactics.
- Demonstrate the various roles and responsibilities in ICS/NIMS.
- List factors to be considered during size-up and define the significance of each factor.
- Examine the significant of fire ground communications.
- List fireground factors and incident priorities and analyze their relationship to effective fireground management.
- Describe basic command operations and list basic components of an initial radio report.
- Describe and evaluate strategic and tactical rescue options.
- Describe the methods used for effective exposure protection.
- Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of master stream devices.
- Describe the contributing factors of confinement applicable in fire service company operations.
- Explain the relationship and proper use of ventilation during offensive extinguishment operations.
- Define and describe the significance of overhaul and salvage at emergency incidents.
Outline:
- Fire Chemistry Terms and Concepts
- Heat transfer
- Principles of fire characteristics of materials
- Fire classifications
- Extinguishing Equipment
- Extinguishing equipment
- Fire apparatus
- Personnel requirements
- Visual Perception
- Pre-planning
- Size-up
- Pre-Fire Planning
- Concept
- Phases
- Methods
- Format
- Occupancy classifications
- Building types
- Fireground Management Principles
- Incident management systems
- Characteristics of command
- Pre-planning
- Action plans
- Incident priorities
- Firefighter safety
- Basic Division Tactics
- Size-Up
- Facts
- Probabilities
- Own Situation
- Decision
- Plan of Operation
- Fireground Factors
- Building construction
- Fire location and extent
- Building occupancy
- Life hazards and location
- Area around building
- Resources
- Arrangement and environmental factors
- Special-systems and other concerns
- Apparatus placement
- Offensive attack
- Defensive attack
- Exposure protection
- Safety considerations from a command perspective
- Incident safety officer
- Coordinating Activities
- Decision-making
- Command operations and functions
- Assumption and confirmation and position
- Situation evaluation
- Communications
- Initial actions
- Initial radio report
- Scene evaluation
- Order model
- Strategy, attack plan, and assigning of units
- Development of fireground organization
- Attack plan
- Review
- Evaluation
- Revision of attack plan
- Command
- Continuing
- Transferring
- Terminating command
- Rescue
- Life safety problems of fire
- Determination of life hazard
- Rescue resources and operations
- Exposures
- Principle of contributing factors
- Exposure protection operations
- Fire stream management
- Heavy stream devices
- Handlines
- Tactical use of protective systems
- Confinement
- Fire separations
- Fire loading
- Built-in protection
- Operations
- Ventilation
- Relationship to objectives
- Equipment
- Roof types
- Methods
- Salvage
- Relationship to objectives
- Equipment
- Operations during fire
- Operations after fire
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