655 IAC 1-4-2 - General requirements for firefighter mandatory training
Authority: IC 36-8-10.5-7
Affected: IC 36-8-10.5
Sec. 2.
(a) These
requirements are intended only to familiarize the recruit firefighter with
introductory personal safety and safe evolutions before engaging in emergency
firefighter activities. These requirements are not intended to replace the
board's requirements for firefighter voluntary certification program and as
follows:
(1) The intent of this document is to
provide rules for the minimum mandatory personal safety training of those
individuals entering or reentering the fire service.
(2) It is not required for the objectives to
be mastered in the order that they appear.
(3) The local fire department, instructor, or
fire chief shall establish the instructional priority of the mandatory
training.
(4) This is intended to
be a minimum training program. Expanded scope and creativity of local training
programs is encouraged.
(b) Minimum components are as follows:
(1) Orientation. Includes the following:
(A) Communication procedures.
(B) How alarms are received.
(C) Who, what, when, and where of local fire
department.
(2) Personal
safety. Includes the following:
(A) Reason for
protective clothing usage, for example:
(i)
helmet;
(ii) coat;
(iii) boots; and
(iv) gloves.
(B) Safe handling of tools.
(3) Forcible entry. Includes the
following:
(A) Safely finding hidden
fires.
(B) Safely entering
structure or building when it is locked.
(C) Nomenclature of tools.
(4) Ventilation. Includes the
following:
(A) Safe letting of hot gases and
smoke escape.
(B) Safe
procedures.
(C) Where to properly
ventilate.
(5)
Apparatus. Includes the following:
(A) Safely
mounting and dismounting from apparatus.
(B) Riding on apparatus.
(C) Safe driving of apparatus.
(D) Basic traffic and firefighting liability
laws.
(6) Ladders.
Includes the following:
(A) Safe setting
positions for ground ladders.
(B)
Safe climbing and getting off of ladders.
(C) Feeling for weakened floors on second
floor or higher before getting off ladder.
(D) Different types of ladders used in fire
service.
(7)
Self-contained breathing apparatus. Includes the following:
(A) Critical needs for wearing self-contained
breathing apparatus.
(B) Safe
practices in its use.
(C)
Nomenclatures of self-contained breathing apparatus.
(D) Safely donning and doffing of
self-contained breathing apparatus.
(8) Hose loads. Includes the following:
(A) How to properly load hose.
(B) Different types of hose loads.
(C) Safely removing different hose
loads.
(D) Accessing water sources
by drafting or hydrants.
(9) Streams. Includes the following:
(A) Safe fire stream velocity and gallons per
minute.
(B) Properly opening and
closing of nozzles.
(10)
Basic recognition of special hazards. Includes the following:
(A) Recognition of special hazards.
(B) DOT hazardous materials placarding
recognition.
(C) Structural hazards
indicating imminent collapse or cave-in.
(D) Recognition of suspicious
fires.
(E) Dangers of backdraft and
flashover.
(F) Overhead electrical
wires.
(G) Special safety
procedures.
(11)
Defensive driving.
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