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Contact
Blake Whitt
Director, Public Safety Training
Northern Durham Center, room 100B
919-536-7200, ext. 4016
PublicSafetyTraining@durhamtech.edu
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Donna Matheson
Program Specialist
919-536-7240, ext. 4417
mathesond@durhamtech.edu
Fire Services Extension (Continuing Education)
Short Term
Required Textbooks
Fire Officer 1 & 2: Fire Officer: Principles and Practice, Third edition, Jones & Bartlett
Available from Jones & Bartlett website or other book vendors.
Fire Prevention Standard I Inspection and Fire Prevention Standard II Inspection: Fire Prevention Code book, 2012 ed.
Purchase from the International Code Council or directly from:
N.C. Office of State Fire Marshal
322 Chapanoke Road
Raleigh, NC
Fire & Life Safety Educator I classes: Fire & Life Safety Educator, 3rd Edition by IFSTA. ISBN: 978-0879393960.
Purchase from the best available vendor including Amazon, Barnes & Noble, or the NC Fire & Rescue Instructor's website
Instructor I: Jones Bartlett instructor, 2nd edition
Other Fire/Emergency Services Training Sites:
FIP-4728T Heavy Vehicle Rescue Training
This course will instruct public safety personnel on how to deal with large heavy vehicle and equipment rescues. Students will learn the fundamentals of shoring, stabilization, and use of tools for heavy rescue situations.
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FIP-4728H Managing Fire Services
This course provides an overview of fire department operative services referenced in NFPA standard 1021. Topics include finance, staffing, equipment, code enforcement, management information, specialized services, legal issues, planning, and other related topics. Upon completion, students should be able to understand concepts and apply fire department management and operations principles.
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FIP-3811A Fire Instructor I
This course will present the Instructor I candidate with the knowledge, skills, and ability to satisfy the requirements of NFPA 1041: Standard for Fire and Emergency Services Instructor Professional Qualifications (2019 edition; Chapter 4). This curriculum should be offered consistent with the most current NC Fire and Rescue Commission guidelines; contact the Office of State Fire Marshal (OSFM) for details. Effective date July 1, 2020/NFPA 1041 Standard, 2019 edition.
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FIP-4728N Large Animal Rescue
This is a special topic for fire and rescue personnel related to the concepts of Large Animal Rescue processes.
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FIP-3812A Fire Instructor II
This course will present the Instructor II candidate with the knowledge, skills, and ability to satisfy the requirements of NFPA 1041: Standard for Fire and Emergency Services Instructor Professional Qualifications (2019 edition; Chapter 5). This curriculum should be offered consistent with the most current NC Fire and Rescue Commission guidelines; contact the Office of State Fire Marshal (OSFM) for details. Effective date July 1, 2020/NFPA 1041 Standard, 2019 edition.
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FIP-3556A HazMat OPS
This course is designed to cover initial response objectives to a hazardous materials incident. This block will present the candidate with the knowledge, skills, and ability to satisfy the requirements of OSHA 1910.120 and Chapter 4, 5, 6.2, and 6.6 of NFPA 1072. In this course, students will learn the fundamentals of a hazardous materials response, understanding the hazards, estimating potential harm and planning a response, responder health and safety, characteristics of hazardous materials, transportation of hazardous materials, terrorist incidents, interagency coordination, hazardous material PPE, decontamination methods, monitoring and detection and containment methods.
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FIP-7000A Traffic Incident Management (TIMS)
This course is designed to establish the foundation for and promote consistent training of all responders to achieve the three objectives of the Traffic Incident Management (TIM) National Unified Goal: responder safety; safety, quick clearance from incidents; and prompt, reliable, interoperable communications. This course will familiarize fire and rescue personnel with the purpose of the Strategic Highway Research Program 2 (SHRP2) and National TIM Responder Training Program and how it relates specifically to North Carolina. Participants will learn to recognize and identify the dangers encountered by emergency responders working in or near traffic. This course is not a state fire & rescue certification course; however, it is a requirement related to one or more state certifications and will transfer electronically to the Office of State Fire Marshal (OSFM) for inclusion on OSFM transcripts. Please contact OSFM for details.
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8/18 - 8/18
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TBA
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