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• FTW 043: Rope Rescue I

  1.60 Credits

  Harrisburg Area Community College-Harrisburg

  
  This course provides an introduction to rope rescue and current rope technology. This hands-on course emphasizes personnel safety, rescue techniques and equipment, knots and hitches, anchor points, harnesses and rappelling, rope construction, rope strength, litter tie-in, belays, and extensive practical activities. Each class participant will practical activities. Each class participant will and a 15'x1 piece of tubular webbing. Students must provide clean leather work gloves, ankle-supporting footwear, helmet with chin strap, safety glasses, and proper dress for all weather conditions.
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• FTW 044: Rope Rescue II

  1.60 Credits

  Harrisburg Area Community College-Harrisburg

  
  This course provides rescue personnel with the knowledge and skills to rescue and remove a patient from an area with the assistance of rope systems. The students will learn to build basic haul systems, ascending systems and advanced descending techniques. Students are instructed in one- person rescue procedures and low-angle stokes evolutions. Students must provide clean leather work gloves, ankle- supporting footwear, helmet with chin strap, safety glasses, and proper dress for all weather conditions. Each class participant will receive a Technical Rescue Riggers Guide. Prerequisite: Rope Rescue I.
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• FTW 045: Rope Rescue III

  1.80 Credits

  Harrisburg Area Community College-Harrisburg

  
  This course provides students with the knowledge and skills to assist with patient removal from vertical situations. Topics include top belay systems, load sharing and load distributing anchor systems, ascending systems, compound mechanical advantage systems and vertical rescue situations involving individuals trapped in an elevated position or hanging in fall protection. Prerequisites: Rope/High Angle Rescue II Minimum Age of student on the first day of class: 16
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• FTW 046: Ropes and Rigging

  1.60 Credits

  Harrisburg Area Community College-Harrisburg

  
  This course provides an introduction to rope rescue, basic rope construction, knots, and basic rappelling techniques. Facts about current rope technology and adjunct equipment are combined with practical exercise to demonstrate the use of rope and related equipment in a non-rappelling-type rescue. Students must provide clean leather work gloves, ankle-supporting footwear, helmet with chin strap, safety glasses, and proper dress for all weather conditions. Each student will receive (1) 5.5' x 8mm piece of accessory cord, a 15'x 1" piece of tubular webbing and a Technical Rescue Rigging Guide.
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• FTW 047: Aerial Apparatus Operations

  1.60 Credits

  Harrisburg Area Community College-Harrisburg

  
  This course is designed to introduce students to the basic design and operation of fire service aerial devices. Topics covered include aerial apparatus design and safety, spotting and stablizing, basic operation features, practical scenarios, maintenance and testing procedures and use of elevated master streams. Prerequisites: Introduction to the Fire Service (ELIS) Required Equipment: Structural Fire Fighting PPE. Minimum Age of Student on First Day of Course: 18.
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• FTW 048: Structural Collapse Awareness

  0.40 Credits

  Harrisburg Area Community College-Harrisburg

  
  This course is designed to make firefighters aware of safety requirements at the scene of a structure collapse and enable them to participate effectively during the initial stages of structural collapse operations. Students will learn to identify and mitigate hazards, recognize the need for assistance, and perform as an integral part of the overall operation, once technical teams are on-site.
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• FTW 049: Structural Collapse Operations

  1.60 Credits

  Harrisburg Area Community College-Harrisburg

  
  This course is designed to reach firefighters the skills needed to function at the operational level at structural collapse incidents involving light frame and heavy wall structures. Students should be able to size-up a damaged structure for stability and victim location, recognize and mitigate hazard, construct and properly place emergency shoring, access and search void spaces, and "package" and extricate patients. Students will need to bring full protective equipment including hand, head, eye, and foot protection. SCBA is not required for this course. Prerequisite: Structural Collapse Operations I
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• FTW 050: Trench Rescue Operations

  1.60 Credits

  Harrisburg Area Community College-Harrisburg

  
  This course wil introduce the students to the knowledge and skills necessary to safely and effectively perform complex rescue operations in non intersecting trenches. Topics include scene size up, hazard recognition and control, incident management, sheeting/shoring techniques and patient extrication and removal. Prerequisites: Trench Rescue Awareness Minimum Age of Student of first day of class: 18
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• FTW 051: Vehicle Rescue Aware (NVRA)

  2.40 Credits

  Harrisburg Area Community College-Harrisburg

  
  This course will provide awareness level information and skills as it pertains to vehicle rescue incidents. Topics will include general vehicle rescue functions and operations incident management of the vehicle rescue scene, vehicle anatomy, design and construction, recognition and control of hazards relative to a vehicle accident and rescue incident. Tools and equipment usage at an accident and rescue incident will also be covered. Prerequisites: Hazardous Materials Awareness or higher level of Hazardous Materials Training or certification within one year of the start of class Minimum age of student on the first day of class: 14
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• FTW 052: Vehicle Rescue Ops (NVRO)

  2.00 Credits

  Harrisburg Area Community College-Harrisburg

  
  This 20 hour course will provide operations level information and a skills as it pertains to vehicle rescue incidents. Topics include incident management , tools and equipment, vehicle anatomy/design, hazard control, patient access, care, packaging, disentanglement, extrication and termination. Upon completion of this course the student will be eligible to complete the PA Joint Rescue Program Basic Vehicle Rescue Technician Examination. Minimum age of students on first day of class: 18.
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