Must Read: All Hands-on Training Students PPE Requirements

PPE/SCBA Requirements for Hands-on Training

All hands-on training students must bring their own NFPA-compliant bunker or technical rescue gear.  FDIC International does not supply personal protective equipment (PPE).  The requirements vary depending on the classes.  FDIC SUPPLIES ALL SCBAs.  DO NOT BRING YOUR SCBA.  If you are in an IDLH class, a link will be sent to you for SCBA Fit Testing scheduling.  The PPE requirements per class are listed below.  

Hands-On Training Evolutions

The following classes require full bunker gear, which includes NFPA-compliant turnout coat and pants, helmet, hood, firefighting boots, and gloves. 

  • Operaciones Básicas de Motobombas y Escalas - Práctica Operativa
  • Electric Vehicle Operations: Fire Attack and Rapid Rescue
  • Engine Company Excellence
  • Live Fire: Aggressive Interior Operations
  • Live Fire: Aggressive TIC Search Operations
  • Live Fire: Can Confidence - Searching for Life and Fire
  • Live Fire: Critical Actions for First-Arriving Crews
  • Live Fire: Flashover - Studying Modern Fire Behavior
  • Live Fire: Multi-discipline Search and Rescue Operations
  • Live Fire: Operation Mayday
  • Live Fire: RIT Under Fire
  • Live Fire: Learning to Burn - Instructor Training for the Modern Fire Environment
  • Live Fire: Vent-Enter-Search
  • Mid-rise and High-rise Tactics for the Modern Fireground
  • Residential Primary Search:  Making the Grab 
  • The Firefighter Body Mechanics Lab
  • Truck Essentials for Effective and Efficient Outcomes 

The following classes can accommodate bunker gear or technical rescue gear.  Technical rescue gear includes jumpsuit or two-piece rescue gear specifically designed for rescue and extrication duty, OSHA and/or ANSI-compliant helmet (hard hat), steel-toed boots, ANSI-compliant eye protection, and gloves. 

  • Active Shooter Response for the First-Due Company 
  • Advanced Vehicle Extrication 
  • Common Sense Technical Rescue 
  • Conventional Forcible Entry:  The “Keys” to the Job
  • Elevator Emergency Management Operations 
  • Fire Dynamics for Fire Investigators
  • Heavy Extrication 
  • Man vs. Machinery 
  • Maximizing Your Rural Water Movement
  • Pinned and Burning: The Dual Threat
  • Tower Rescue and Rope Operations
  • Urban Rigging and Rescue

Hands-on (H.O.T) Workshops

Each class description has detailed PPE requirements specific to that class.  In general, students who plan to participate in the hands-on portion of these classes will be required to have technical rescue gear:  jumpsuit or two-piece rescue gear specifically designed for rescue and extrication duty, OSHA and/or ANSI-compliant helmet (hard hat), steel-toed boots, ANSI-compliant eye protection, and gloves.  Structural PPE is not required but is acceptable.  Students without PPE are welcome to observe the hands-on portions.