FSLM 262 Disaster Planning (4 credits)
Course Description
This course examines concepts and principles of community risk assessment, planning, and response to fires and natural and human-caused disasters, including the National Incident Management System–Incident Command Systems (NIMS ICS), mutual aid and automatic response, training and preparedness, communications, civil disturbances, terrorist threats/incidents, hazardous materials planning, mass casualty incidents, earthquake preparedness, and disaster mitigation and recovery.
Course Content
A. Disaster Anticipation and Preparation
B. Managing Disasters
C. Frequent Threats — Fire, Transportation, and Hazmat
D. Growing Threats, Global Concerns
E. Natural Disasters and Recovery
Student Outcomes
1. Discuss the importance of disaster planning, preparation, and mitigation.
2. Evaluate the hazard assessment processes and the role of the firefighter in community disaster planning and recovery.
3. Assess hazard response and planning procedures.
4. Define the impact of hazard occurrence on community response.
5. Define the parameters and effectiveness of an Emergency Operations Plan (EOP) and its components.
6. Differentiate the multilevel agency responsibilities in disaster mitigation.
7. Define the relationships between disaster planning, mitigation, and recovery.
Degree Outcomes
Effective Communication: Graduates will be able to exchange messages in a variety of contexts using multiple methods. Intercultural Engagement: Graduates demonstrate self-efficacy in intercultural engagement to advance equity, diversity, and inclusion through reflections and expressions of cultural humility, empathy, and social and civic engagement and action. Further, graduates examine how identities/positionalities such as races, social classes, genders, sexual orientations, disabilities, and cultures impact perceptions, actions, and the distribution of power and privilege in communities, systems, and institutions. Fire Systems Risk Management Analyze the factors that shape risk and apply them to strategies for fire and injury prevention including fire risk reduction prevention, enforcement, investigation, research, and planning Fire Service Research Apply scientific methods of inquiry and research to arrive at reasoned decisions regarding fire service leadership and administration.
Lecture Contact Hours 40
Lab Contact Hours 0
Clinical Contact Hours 0
Total Contact Hours 40
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