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Fire - Vehicle Rescuer Operations - VRO220133

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Brief Description: Provides knowledge/skills in Vehicle Rescuer Ops as outlined in NFPA 1006.

Full Description: This course is designed to provide entry level emergency responders with the knowledge and skills to meet the minimum job performance requirements as outlined in NFPA 1006. It offers a combination of classroom and practical evolution's that allow the student to learn proper techniques to plan for a vehicle incident and be capable of hazard recognition, equipment use and techniques necessary to operate safely and effectively at incidents involving persons injured or entrapped in a vehicle. Operations level functions at vehicle rescue incidents include procedures to identify probable victim locations and survivability, making the rescue area safe, including the stabilization and isolation (i.e., lockout/tag out) of all vehicles. Additional environmental skills will teach students how to identify, contain and stop fuel release, as well as mitigation and management of general and specific hazards (fire, explosion) associated with vehicles. Rescue techniques include accessing victims trapped in a vehicle, protection of a victim during extrication disentanglement, packaging of a victim prior to extrication/disentanglement and performing extrication operations through the use of hand tools.

Training Location: Pittsboro FD (Hendricks)(0088)
400 E Main Street
Pittsboro, IN 46167 (Hendricks County)

Resources Required: Firefighting gear may be required for the practical skills activity. Students are encouraged to bring personal cameras for use in the practical activity.

Students shall understand and follow all instructions pertaining to operational safety, as stated by instructors or as written in course materials. Instructors and students shall be mindful of safety at all times. Conduct judged to be unsafe shall be grounds for dismissal from the course.

Documents: 2 Instructor Materials Vehicle Rescuer Operations 2026

3 Skills Sheets Vehicle Rescue Operations (03-26)

4 Lead Evaluator Acknowledgment Vehicle Rescue Operations (03-26)

Course Syllabus/Schedule (must include, at a minimum, all locations, dates, times, and names of instructors for all classes.)