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Aug 31, 2024
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2024-2025 Yavapai College Catalog
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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:
- Fire chemistry terms and concepts
- Extinguishing equipment
- Visual perception
- Pre-planning
- Size-up
- Pre-fire planning
- Concept/phases/methods/format
- Occupancy classifications and building types
- Basic divisions of tactics
- Plan of operations
- Rescue
- Exposures
- Confinement
Learning Outcomes:
- Discuss fire behavior as it relates to strategies and tactics. (1,3,7,9,10)
- Explain the main components of pre-fire planning and identify steps needed for a pre-fire plan review. (4,6,8)
- Identify the basics of building construction and how they interrelate to pre-fire planning and strategy and tactics. (2,8-13)
- Describe the steps taken during size-up. (3-5,10)
- Examine the significance of fire ground communications. (9-11)
- 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)
- Discuss the various roles and responsibilities in ICS/NIMS. (9,10)
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