FIRE 250 - Hazardous Materials

Description:FIRE 250 is designed to provide the basic skills needed to evaluate and work defensively at an incident involving the release of hazardous materials. The student will understand the relevance of standard operating guidelines and how they play a role in hazardous materials operations.
Credit hours:3-0-3
Applicability towards graduation:
  • Certificate or degree - All Certificates, AAS, ALS
  • Group requirement - Not Applicable
  • Area of concentration - Not Applicable
Offered:Spring

Spring 2009 Offerings

CourseSecBegEndDaysInstructorNotes
FIRE 250016:00p8:50pTStaff
FIRE 250C112:05p2:23pM,T,W,Th,FVespa
  • This section begins on Mar 16 and ends on May 22.
  • Dual Credit-Decatur Area Technical Academy Students Only

Fire Science Courses

NumberTitleHours
FIRE 110Introduction to Fire Science (Module A)4-0-4
FIRE 111Techniques of Firefighting 1 (Module B)4-0-4
FIRE 112Techniques of Firefighting 2 (Module C)4-0-4
FIRE 113Techniques of Firefighting 3 (Module C Extension)3-0-3
FIRE 120Fire Prevention Principles 13-0-3
FIRE 130Fire Service Laws and Regulations3-0-3
FIRE 140Fire Service Instructor-Basic3-0-3
FIRE 170Rescue/Roadway Extrication2-2-3
FIRE 200Tactics and Strategy3-0-3
FIRE 210Tactics and Strategy II3-0-3
FIRE 220Fire Instructor II3-0-3
FIRE 230Fire Service Hydraulics4-0-4
FIRE 250Hazardous Materials3-0-3
FIRE 260Fire Investigation3-0-3
FIRE 270Management 13-0-3
FIRE 280Management 23-0-3
FIRE 285Fire Science Management III3-0-3
FIRE 286Fire Service Management IV3-0-3
FIRE 297Fire Science Technologies1-0-1 to 3-0-3