PUAFIR203 Respond to Urban Fire

 This unit covers the competency for responding to an urban fire where offensive and defensive strategies are used, when working as a member of a team, under direct supervision.

 

Course Content

The course covers the following;

 

  • Introduction
  • Training
  • Operator competency
  • Operation and task information
  • Receiving and confirming notification of the incident
  • Receiving the call
  • Chemistry of fire
  • Atoms and molecules
  • Elements
  • Flashpoint
  • Firepoint
  • Spontaneous ignition temperature
  • Hydraulics
  • Properties of water
  • Water tension
  • Pressure and head of water
  • Exercises
  • Suction
  • Effects of temperature on suction lift
  • Cavitation
  • Gauges
  • Pump discharge pressure
  • Water gauges
  • Dust explosions
  • BLEVE
  • Explosion protection
  • Maps and grid references
  • Parts of a compass
  • Reading from a map
  • Integrated location services
  • Positioning fire department appliances
  • Positioning for fire attack
  • Right equipment for the job
  • Fire and Rescue equipment
  • Traditional tools
  • Fire hose
  • Lay flat hose
  • Drying hose
  • Ropes and lines
  • Wire ropes
  • Fibre ropes
  • Hydrants
  • State and local authority legislation
  • Hydrant plates
  • Water supplies in buildings
  • Building fire booster operation
  • Phase 2
  • Signs of collapse
  • Gas in structure fires
  • Hazardous materials in structures
  • Pre-planning for BA teams
  • The rescue team
  • Search procedures and working in smoke
  • Emergency communication
  • Combat fires
  • Application techniques
  • Residential structure fires
  • Structural fire electrical safety
  • Use the professionals
  • Strategies
  • Defensive strategy
  • Key points
  • Residential v commercial
  • Conclusion
  • Variations
  • Prevent fire reoccurrence
  • Raking down
  • Digging out
  • Ventilation
  • Purpose of ventilation
  • Options for carrying out natural ventilation
  • Manual handling
  • Employers duties
  • Employees duties
  • Entry and into searching of buildings and collapsed structures
  • Structural collapse
  • Classes of buildings
  • Release of trapped persons from lifts and escalators
  • Poor communication
  • Gaining access to machine rooms and shafts
  • Confined spaces – silos
  • Design and construction
  • Construction materials
  • Mechanical lifting operations
  • Falling people and objects
  • Falling from the same level
  • Rescue from sewers
  • Significant hazards and risks
  • Internal conditions
  • Incidents involving transportation by road
  • Types of incidents
  • Causes of incidents
  • Water and ice rescue
  • On arrival
  • Assess the hazards
  • Railway incidents
  • Legislation
  • At the incident
  • Working at heights
  • The nature and extent of an injury resulting from a fall at height
  • Factors to consider
  • Fighting fires on farms
  • Significant hazards
  • Hazardous substances and materials found on farms
  • Firefighting operations
  • Unknown buildings
  • Evacuation of buildings
  • The high-rise procedure
  • On receiving the call
  • Pre-determined attendance
  • The high rise bag
  • Wall plate
  • Firefighting lifts
  • Is it a firefighting lift?
  • What should it have and do?
  • Fire suppression systems
  • Type of sprinklers
  • Residential sprinklers

 

Duration

13.5 Hours