Firefighter

Firefighter/EMS Training Videos

Video Series:
»» Firefighter I
»» Firefighter II
»» Incident Management & Command
»» Aerial Apparatus
»» Pumping Apparatus
»» Incident Command System for Haz-Mat Decontamination
»» Decontamination
»» Haz-Mat Materials Containment
»» EMS Series: Behind the Wheel

Each tapes run approximately 20 minutes.

Fire/EMS Video Library

Firefighter I Series

Fireground Safety
Presents systems and methods for improving fireground safety including: standard operating procedures, an incident management system, and a personnel accountability system. Demonstrates how to safely shut off utilities, and safety procedures to use at electrical emergencies.

Safety Standards for the Fire Service
Presents an overview of a firefighter's safety responsibilities required by NFPA 1500. Demonstrates universally accepted safety procedures and equipment used in the line of duty.

Fire Behavior
Defines the chemical processes of combustion and fire. Presents various fire conditions and explains the hazards of each. Demonstrates the concepts of fire behavior that affect fire fighting methods and tactics in structural fires.

SCBA 1: Introduction
Presents the components, function and safety features of various types of SCBA. Limitations of the equipment are also presented as well as an overview of the hazardous environments that require SCBA use.

SCBA 2: Use & Maintenance
Demonstrates correct procedures for donning and doffing SCBA and shows how to change cylinders at an emergency scene. Presents inspection and maintenance tasks as well as safety precautions for using SCBA in emergency situations.

Personal Protective Clothing
Presents the identification and function of protective clothing used in fireground operations and hazardous materials incidents. Demonstrates correct methods for using and caring for protective clothing, as well as the limits of protection.

Portable Extinguishers
Designed to be used in public education programs as well as in fire service training. Defines the rating system, administrates inspection techniques and shows how to select and use the correct type of portable extinguisher for the type of fire.

Ropes & Knots
Presents different types of rope, how to identify rope types, and correct procedures for maintaining, inspecting, and storing rope. Demonstrates how to tie the six knots required by NFPA 1001.

Fire Control 1
Demonstrates correct initial attack operations in single-story occupancies. Presents operations in various types of fires including: Class A combustibles (exterior and interior), Class B exterior, vehicle fires, and Class A storage container fires.

Ladders 1
Identifies ladder parts and terms. Basic ladder types and use defined. Demonstrates basic ladder handling methods.

Ladders 2
Shows correct ladder placement. Demonstrates general procedures for raising and climbing ladders. Presents safety procedures when working with ladders.

Horizontal Ventilation
Presents the principles and advantages of horizontal, mechanical, and hydraulic ventilation. Shows the signs, causes, effects, and prevention of backdraft. Demonstrates how to safely and properly set up horizontal ventilation equipment.

Vertical Ventilation
Presents various types of common roof construction. Demonstrates the techniques and safety precautions for venting flat and pitched roofs using hand and power tools. Shows how to determine the integrity of a roof system including the basic indicators of potential collapse. Presents the advantages and disadvantages of vertical and trench/strip ventilation.

Fire Hose Basics
Shows fire hose construction, size, uses, general care, maintenance, and how to prevent damage. Identifies hose couplings, hose appliances and tools. Demonstrates hose roll methods.

Handling Hose
Shows various types of hose loads and finishes. Presents three basic hose lays. Demonstrates methods of coupling and uncoupling hose.

Advancing Hoselines
Demonstrates how to pull and carry hose from a pumper to the fire location, advance hoselines into final position for applying water, how to extend a section of hose and how to retrieve a loose hoseline. Shows methods for operating and controlling medium and large diameter hoselines.

Fire Streams
Presents different types of fire streams and the pros and cons. Shows use and maintenance of various types of fire hose nozzles. Defines "water hammer" and shows how to prevent it.

Forcible Entry
Identifies forcible entry tools and how they should be used and maintained. Presents how to do "through the lock" entry on different types of doors. Demonstrates various methods of forced entry through three types of doors and three types of windows.

Fire Detection, Alarms & Communications
Presents several methods of receiving alarms from the public. Identifies methods of alerting fire department personnel of an emergency and how to use communication equipment at the station and on the fireground. Presents the operation of several types of alarm-initiating devices, including smoke detectors.

Power Tools & Lighting Equipment
Presents safety guidelines for operating power tools used in forcible entry, rescue, and ventilation. Demonstrates safety principles and practices for operating various types of portable power supply. Shows how to correctly set up electrical equipment to illuminate an emergency scene.

Loss Control: Salvage
Presents the benefits of salvage to the public and the fire department. Demonstrates use of salvage covers in salvage operations. Shows care and maintenance of salvage equipment.

Loss Control: Overhaul
Identifies procedures and safety precautions to follow during overhaul. Describes several indicators of structural instability. Demonstrates procedures for restoring premises after a fire.

Fire Prevention & Public Education
Presents the importance of fire safety and public education programs to fire department public relations. Demonstrates how to perform a fire safety survey in a private dwelling. Presents a school fire prevention program. Identifies standard types of chimneys and flues and presents common fire hazards associated with each.

Firefighter II Series

Building Construction
Describes basic structural characteristics of several types of building construction. Identifies dangerous building conditions created by fire and fire suppression activities. Explains the indicators to look for in a potential building collapse.

Rescue Operations
Describes techniques and safety procedures for rescue activities, especially motor vehicle accidents. Demonstrates the use of several rescue tools. Presents dangers associated with vehicle components and systems. Shows methods of extricating an entrapped victim from a motor vehicle.

Advanced Ventilation
Presents the considerations that must be made when determining the location and size of a ventilation opening. Demonstrates how to properly ventilate a basement and it shows the special ventilation problems encountered when performing ventilation in high-rise buildings.

Municipal Water Systems
Explains the components of a modern water system, operation of different types of hydrants and presents how certain conditions can reduce the effectiveness of a hydrant. Defines terms relating to water supply pressure.

Fire Control 2
Presents information and demonstrations of extinguishing and controlling live fires, including an ignitable liquid fire, and fires in upper levels or below grade. Demonstrates fire control methods for energized electrical components. Presents control tactics for a fire involving a flammable gas cylinder.

Foam Fire Streams
Identifies the four ways that foam extinguishes or prevents fire. Defines how foam is produced and characteristics of several common types of foam. Demonstrates how to assemble a foam fire stream system.

Fire Hose Appliances
Shows how to select the proper nozzle and hose for various fire attack situations. Identifies the correct adapters and appliances to be used in specific fire ground situations. Describes and demonstrates the operation of fog and solid stream nozzles.

Sprinkler Systems
Describes various types of sprinkler systems and how they operate. Presents several sources of water supply for sprinkler systems. Identifies the location and appearance of controls and operating valves for a sprinkler system.

Fire Origin & Cause
Presents the firefighter's role in fire cause determination. Shows how to secure the scene pending an investigation. Describes the legal considerations of fire cause determination in the United States.

Pre-Incident Survey Inspections
Demonstrates how to conduct pre-incident fire inspections and fire safety surveys and shows how to prepare written documentation for each. Identifies common fire hazards found in occupancies subject to fire company inspection. Shows how to inspect fire protection systems for readiness.

Incident Management & Command Series

Incident Safety Officer
A complete training package that includes all the materials necessary to provide a six-hour program (3 two-hr. sessions) that prepares officers & firefighters to work together to promote safety at every emergency scene.

The program covers: The function of the Safety Officer in the IMS or ICS system, roles and responsibilities of the Incident Safely Officer, characteristics of an effective Safety Officer, and risk assessment at the emergency scene.

Public Information Officer
A hands-on six-hour program (3 two-hour sessions) teaches the basics that every department needs to know and maintain excellent media relations in your community. The program covers: The role of the Public Information Officer, public disclosure laws, media relations, writing press releases and conducting press briefings, and handling emergency scene interviews.

The Incident Safety Officer & the Public Information Officer have the following material included: One 20-minute video, a step-by-step lesson plan, transparencies, and student worksheets for program activities

Aerial Apparatus Series

Aerial Apparatus Driving Techniques
Demonstrates safe driving techniques; meeting challenges of different road and weather conditions; how to drive defensively; using warning devices; special handling techniques; and tiller operator skills.

Positional Aerial Apparatus
Describes typical standard operating procedures for correctly positional aerial apparatus; four tactical uses of aerial devices; special safety considerations.

Stabilizing Aerial Apparatus
Provides an overview of how to hydraulic system works; how to broaden the vehicle base; engaging the PTO system; setting stabilizers in different terrains; stabilizing the tractor- trailer apparatus.

Operating Telescope and Articulating Equipment
Covers safety rules for all types of aerial devices; raising and lowering telescope ladders and platforms and articulating platforms.

Aerial Apparatus Maintenance
Basic Preventative maintenance programs; change-of-shift inspection routines; scheduled maintenance; special inspection methods.

Pumping Apparatus Series

Safe Operation of Emergency Vehicles
Safe driving techniques; starting and driving apparatus with automatic and manual transmissions; and diesel and gasoline powered engines; demonstration of driving exercises and performance evaluations of drivers.

Positioning Apparatus
How to determine proper positioning for pumping apparatus; special operations; staging procedures; safety and tactics for limited access highways.

Operating Fire Pumps
Operating pumps under a variety of circumstances; how pumps work; different types of water supplies; using a pump with a pumper, hydrant, or draft.

Apparatus Inspection and Maintenance
Systematic daily, weekly, and periodic maintenance; upkeep of equipment carried on the apparatus; inspecting apparatus components.

Water Shuttle and Relay Pumping
Shows how water shuttle operations and relay pumping are two methods for providing water to emergency scenes in remote areas.

Incident Command System for Haz-Mat Incidents Series

Overview of the Incident Command System
Describes the components and functions of the ICS and presents the benefits of using a standard system for incident management as required by OSHA 29 CFR 1910.120.

Implementing the ICS at Haz-Mat Incidents
Explains the elements of ICS related to Haz-Mat incidents; demonstrates a step-by-step ICS response to an incident showing the function of each unit at the scene.

Decontamination Series

Why Decontamination?
Why a “no exceptions” policy for decontamination at Haz-Mat sites is needed; how contamination occurs and how if affects the human body; four basic methods of decontamination and their limits.

Decontamination Procedures
Detailed description of the nine-step decontamination process; preparing a decontamination standard operating procedure as required by 29 CFR 1910.120.

Handling Contaminated Victims
How to properly rescue, decontaminate, and prepare contaminated victims for transport to a health care facility; how to reduce contamination of rescue vehicles.

Haz-Mat Materials Containment Series

Plugging and Patching Drums
Containment of leaks in low-pressure drums; demonstration of containment techniques using everyday tools and material; safety considerations.

Containing Leaks in Pressurized Cylinders
This program shows how to detect and contain leaks in high-pressure gas cylinders using common materials and tools.

Diking, Diverting and Retaining Spills
Confine and control Haz-Mat spills common materials and equipment; demonstrates specific techniques for diking, diverting and retaining; shows decontamination methods.

Incidents Involving Fuel Tank Trucks
Detailed look at the MC306 fuel tank truck, including structural and safety features. Presents four types of incidents; emphasizes safety precautions when working around flammable liquids and tank truck fires.

EMS Series: Behind the Wheel

Developing Safe Driving Attitudes
Presents general safety concepts and safety awareness; includes a demonstration of driving exercises and performance testing.

Controlling EMS Response Vehicle
Teaches the effects of physical forces on the vehicle and shows specific skills for controlling the vehicle in dangerous situations.

EMS Vehicle Preventative Maintenance
Show how to maintain a safe vehicle by performing shift checks and by knowing how critical systems affect performance.

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