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Fire - Vehicle & Machinery Rescuer Operations - VMRO0005

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Brief Description: Provides knowledge/skills in Vehicle & Machinery Rescue Ops as outlined in NFPA 1670 and NFPA 472.

Full Description: This course is designed to provide entry level emergency responders with the knowledge and skills to meet the minimum job performance requirements as outlined in NFPA 1670 and Chapter 3 of NFPA 472, Standard for Professional Competence of Responders to Hazardous Materials Incidents. It offers a combination of classroom and practical evolution's that allow the student to learn proper techniques to plan for a vehicle/machinery incident and be capable of hazard recognition, equipment use and techniques necessary to operate safely and effectively at incidents involving persons injured or entrapped in a vehicle or machinery. Operations level functions at vehicle and/or machinery rescue incidents include procedures to identify probable victim locations and survivability, making the rescue area safe, including the stabilization and isolation (i.e., lockout/tag out) of all vehicles and/or machinery. Additional environmental skills will teach students how to identify, contain and stop fuel release, as well as mitigation and management of general and specific hazards (fire, explosion) associated with vehicles. Rescue techniques include accessing victims trapped in a vehicle or machinery, protection of a victim during extrication disentanglement, packaging of a victim prior to extrication/disentanglement and performing extrication operations through the use of hand tools.

Prerequisites: Shall have been an Indiana First Responder or above
Must have Technical Rescue Awareness Certification
Must have Hazardous Materials First Responder Operations certification

: The maximum capacity for this class has been reached. Your request can be added to the waitlist. Additional seats may become available for future enrollment.

Training Location: HONEY CREEK FIRE DEPT(Vigo)(1036)
6553 S CARLISLE ST
TERRE HAUTE, IN 47802

Resources Required: Firefighting gear may be required for the practical skills activity. Students are encouraged to bring personal cameras for use in the practical activity.
Students shall understand and follow all instructions pertaining to operational safety, as stated by instructors or as written in course materials. Instructors and students shall be mindful of safety at all times. Conduct judged to be unsafe shall be grounds for dismissal from the course.