2024-2025 Yavapai College Catalog 
    
    Oct 31, 2024  
2024-2025 Yavapai College Catalog

FSC 238 - Strategy and Tactics


Description: Principles of fire ground control through utilization of personnel, equipment, and extinguishing agents.

Credits: 3
Lecture: 3
Lab: 0

Course Content:
  1. Fire chemistry terms and concepts
  2. Extinguishing equipment
  3. Visual perception
  4. Pre-planning
  5. Size-up
  6. Pre-fire planning
  7. Concept/phases/methods/format
  8. Occupancy classifications and building types
  9. Basic divisions of tactics
  10. Plan of operations
  11. Rescue
  12. Exposures
  13. Confinement
     

Learning Outcomes:
  1. Discuss fire behavior as it relates to strategies and tactics. (1,3,7,9,10)
  2. Explain the main components of pre-fire planning and identify steps needed for a pre-fire plan review. (4,6,8)
  3. Identify the basics of building construction and how they interrelate to pre-fire planning and strategy and tactics. (2,8-13)
  4. Describe the steps taken during size-up. (3-5,10)
  5. Examine the significance of fire ground communications. (9-11)
  6. Identify the roles of the National Incident Management Systems (NIMS) and Incident Management System (ICS) as they relate to strategy and tactics. (2,5,10,11)
  7. Discuss the various roles and responsibilities in ICS/NIMS. (9,10)