Residential Primary Search: Making the Grab
While the number of structure fires is decreasing, civilian fire deaths are increasing. As a fire service, we must get better at performing and supporting the search on a fireground. We give THEM the best chance for survival when an aggressive primary search is completed within the first 10 minutes of fireground operations. This fast-past class concentrates on the fundamentals of searching, good communications, and having a plan. The students will be taught ways to maximize their efficiency, have a chance to perform each type of search, learn simple drags for victim removal, and then get real time reps to put it all together. On completion of this class, the students will have a good understanding of where victims are likely to be found and the time factor involved in increasing the chance of survival, understand and perform oriented search, understand and perform split search understand and complete vent-enter-search, complete a hasty search as part of the initial-arriving engine company, and be able to drag a victim head or feet first.
*Eligible for CEH/CAPCE Credit
