Urban Fire and Life Safety — Issues and Solutions R0380
| Delivery type |
6-Day On-Campus |
| ACE recommendation |
ACE has not reviewed. |
| CEU’s |
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| Student pre-course materials and course syllabus |
http://nfa.usfa.fema.gov/ax/pcm/pcm_r0380.pdf PDF http://nfa.usfa.fema.gov/ax/pcm/pcm_r0380.pdf?.fileSize,
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Upcoming offerings
January 22 - 27, 2017 |
September 17 - 22, 2017 |
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Course description
This new six-day course seeks to develop strategies to address common risk-reduction challenges facing fire departments that serve urban communities. The course educates personnel from large municipal fire departments or state fire organizations on how to prepare and implement fire and risk-reduction strategies that may make a significant impact in urban cities. Strategies will focus on how to engage, solicit and activate the public, including internal and external organizations.
The course parallels a five-step planning process found in the document “Public Fire Education Planning for Urban Communities” (The National Fire Protection Agency’s adaptation of U.S. Fire Administration's (USFA's) “Public Fire Education Planning for Urban Communities: A Five-Step Process Guide to Success”). The students will have opportunities to personally model and demonstrate many of the course concepts in an urban risk environment. In a pre-course assignment, students identify their significant urban risk areas and then develop prevention, mitigation and evaluation strategies to reduce the risks.
The course model follows a planning process that applies fire and life safety tools related to a large urban setting. The following topics are presented in this course:
• High-risk urban landscapes.
• Community risk analysis in urban areas.
• Developing partnerships in an urban environment/organization.
• Creating strategies to solve urban fire and life safety issues.
• Implementing/Evaluating urban risk-reduction strategies.
Selection criteria
• Those from large urban/state fire organizations whose positions require risk-reduction work in fire or EMS. Students must represent urban communities of 200,000 or greater in population (or in smaller states — the largest city in the state not over 200,000 in population). Personnel from this category include, but are not limited to, community educators, EFOs, COs, fire marshals, inspectors, members of urban task force groups, and others whose position relates to risk reduction. Applicants in this category should include two items in Block 16 on the application form: their PARADE/TRADE organization identification and their risk-reduction job category.
• Applicants from an organization that serves a population less than 200,000 can qualify if they attest on their application (Block 16) that their urban area shares the following characteristics, and they identify their risk-reduction job category (as above).
– Large numbers of people in the urban area are at higher risk to fire and EMS, such as older adults, young children, people with lower socioeconomic statuses, and people with disabilities.
– An urban community with multicultural groups and non-English speaking immigrants.
Prerequisites
Incident Command System (ICS)-100-level and ICS-200-level training. Preferred courses are Q0462 and Q0463, available through NFA Online at www.usfa.fema.gov/training/nfa/courses/online.html. Chief’s signature attests that the applicant has completed this required training.
