Live Fire: Aggressive TIC Search Operations (08MA)

This class will combine time and battle-tested search techniques with updated modern thermal imaging technologies, designed to take your fireground searches to the next level. When applied properly, thermal imaging cameras enhance fundamentally sound aggresive search crews, making us more efficient and succesful. Communication and positioning of the TIC operator for facilitating seach efforts is an essential component of this process. Fundamental search mehtodology relies on sound basics, from moving through the room quickly and efficiently to understanding fire and smoke behavior in a compartment. When combined with modern thermal imaging, firefighters take the upper hand and save lives. This class is about understanding all the tools at your disposal, when to use them, and how to use them properly, to become more Intelligently Aggresive.