FSLM 273 Principles of Emergency Services (5 credits)
Course Description
This course provides an overview to fire protection and emergency services; career opportunities in fire protection and related fields; culture and history of emergency services; fire loss analysis; organization and function of public and private fire protection services; fire departments as part of local government; laws and regulations affecting the fire service; fire service nomenclature; specific fire protection functions; basic fire chemistry and physics; introduction to fire protection systems; introduction to fire strategy and tactics; life safety initiatives.
Course Content
A. Careers in the Fire Protection/Emergency Services
B. History of the Fire Problem
C. Fire Prevention and Public Fire Education
D. Scientific Terminology
E. Building Design and Construction
F. Fire Detection and Suppression Systems
G. The Role of Public and Private Support Organizations
H. Fire and Emergency Services Equipment and Facilities Management
Student Outcomes
1. Illustrate and explain the history and culture of the fire service.
2. Analyze the basic components of fire as a chemical chain reaction, the major phases of fire, and examine the main factors that influence fire spread and fire behavior.
3. Differentiate between fire service training and education and explain the value of higher education to the professionalization of the fire service.
4. List and describe the major organizations that provide emergency response service and illustrate how they interrelate.
5. Identify fire protection and emergency-service careers in both the public and private sector.
6. Define the role of national, State and local support organizations in fire and emergency services.
7. Discuss and describe the scope, purpose, and organizational structure of fire and emergency services.
8. Describe the common types of fire and emergency service facilities, equipment, and apparatus.
9. Compare and contrast effective management concepts for various emergency situations.
10. Identify the primary responsibilities of fire prevention personnel including, code enforcement, public information, and public and private protection systems.
11. Recognize the components of career preparation and goal setting.
12. Describe the importance of wellness and fitness as it relates to emergency services.
Degree Outcomes
Information Competency: Graduates will be able to seek, find, evaluate and use information, and employ information technology to engage in lifelong learning. Global Citizenship: Graduates will be able to critically examine the relationship between self, community, and/or environments, and to evaluate and articulate potential impacts of choices, actions, and contributions for the creation of sustainable and equitable systems. Fire Service Organizational Management Apply organizational theories and models of behavioral science in organizational diagnostics and development to organizational challenges associated with the fire protection services. Fire Service Organizational Management Apply organizational theories and models of behavioral science in organizational diagnostics and development to organizational challenges associated with the fire protection services.
Lecture Contact Hours 50
Lab Contact Hours 0
Clinical Contact Hours 0
Total Contact Hours 50
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