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Fire - Vehicle Rescuer Technician - VRT220092

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

Full Description: This course provides knowledge and skills to meet the minimum job performance requirements as outlined in NFPA 1006, Standards for Technical Rescue Personnel Professional Qualifications.

The course trains Firefighters who respond to incidents such as: passenger and heavy vehicle incidents, equipment entrapment's, impalement's, and farm and industrial machinery entrapment's. The course is designed to offer a combination of classroom and practical evolution's that allow the student to learn proper techniques to plan for a vehicle/machinery incident, establish fire protection, stabilize a vehicle or machine, isolate potential harmful energy sources, determine vehicle access and egress points, create access and egress openings for rescue, disentangle victims, remove a packaged victim to a designated safe area, and terminate a vehicle/machinery incident. Course topics also include proper use of hand, electric, pneumatic, and heavy hydraulic tools. All operations stress rescuer and victim safety.

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 Rescue Technician (03-26)

3 Skills Sheets Vehicle Rescue Technician (03-26)

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

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