Kriska Fire Training

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Kriska Fire Training
Course Objectives
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Everyone Goes Home
Making Your Job Safer
Four hour classroom
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Objectives

• Real world of firefighting
• Solid fuel fire behavior
• Smoke and flammable vapors (gases)
• Synthetic materials
• Ventilation
• Increasing your attack line water flow
• Flashover and Backdraft, Whats the difference?
• The Way We Have Always Done It
• Mission Vision
• Pre-Incident Planning
• The players
• Hazardous Materials
• Managing the information

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Objectives

• Truss Construction
• Types of truss
• Gusset plates
• Truss tactics
• Size-Up
• Laymans Mental Size-up
• New Mental Size-up
• Four step size-up method
• Using your imagination
• Getting out of Mission Vision
• Thermal Imaging Cameras
• Three point search pattern

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Company Officer.. Supervisor or Co-Pilot?
Two hour classroom
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Class Objective

• Time and Resource Management during the emergency
  response
• Discuss how the traditional function of
  pre-incident planning led to a Non-Traditional
  idea
• Introduce the Company Officer Command Area

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Up-Front Ventilation using Positive Pressure
Attack
Six hour classroom Practical live burn if desired
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Class Objectives

• Introduction..Solid fuel Fire Behavior.. Do we do
  dumb things?..Leadership
• Technological Advances vs. Increased Risks of
  Interior Firefighting
• Backdraft and Flashover..Whats the difference?
• The Way We Have Always Done It
• The TIME Element
• Positive Pressure
• Wind..Fire..MechanicalIdeal Gas Law
• National Institute of Safety and Technology-PPV
  Test results
• Positive Pressure Attack Terminology

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Class Objectives

• Path of Least Resistance
• High Risk Area
• Low Risk Area
• Positive Pressure Equipment Scenarios
• Size-up for Up-Front Ventilation using Positive
  Pressure Attack
• Standard Operating Procedure for Positive
  Pressure Attack

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Class Objectives

• Positive Pressure Attack Residential
  Scenarios
• Specific Type Fires
• PPA and specific buildings, vehicles
• Positive Pressure Attack Incident Critiques
• Doing it Right..Up-Front Ventilation using
  Positive Pressure Attack

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Objectives of the Live Burn

• Allow you to observe
• Incipient stage of the fire
• Free burning stage of the fire
• Mushrooming caused by resistance
• Fire following a path of least resistance
• PPV affect on the fire without an exhaust opening
• PPV with an exhaust opening

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Waterloo 2007
Four hour classroom Practical live burn if desired
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Class Objectives

• The Way we have always Done It
• In-adequate size ups
• No up-front ventilation
• No visibility
• Super heat
• Disorientation
• No Pre-Incident Planning

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Class Objectives

• The Risks Have Changed
• Smoke detectors
• Protective Clothing
• Synthetic furnishings
• Energy efficient buildings
• Construction features

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Class Objectives

• A New way of Thinking
• Time and Resource Management during the Response
• New Mental Size up
• Four Step Building Size up
• Mission Vision
• Thermal Imaging Camera
• Truss Construction
• Positive Pressure Attack

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Objectives of the Live Burn

• Allow you to observe
• Incipient stage of the fire
• Free burning stage of the fire
• Mushrooming caused by resistance
• Fire following a path of least resistance
• PPV affect on the fire without an exhaust opening
• PPV with an exhaust opening

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Ventilation
Why??
Eight hour classroom Practical if desired
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Class Objectives

• Disorientation
• Fire Behavior Review
• Risks have changed (The Enemy)
• New Mental Size-Up System/Four Step Size-up
  Method/Mission Vision
• Basic Ventilation Practices
• Roof ConstructionRed Flag
• Positive Pressure Ventilation