Use these free resources to assist you with your fire and emergency services day-to-day responsibilities or to meet your training and professional development needs.
Fire inspectors, firefighters and building officials who have to work with modern fire protection systems often like to have hands-on training with these devices.
The National Fire Academy offers a free handbook so you can build your own fixed or mobile training facility for fire protection systems and equipment such as automatic sprinklers, fire pumps, range hood suppression systems and standpipes.
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The illustration demonstrates the relationship between time and how a fire grows. Various warnings and interventions, such as smoke alarms, fire sprinklers and the fire department, are depicted along the timeline.
Illustration: Time vs. Products of Combustion PDF 1.1 MBUsing and interpreting information from engineer (civil) and architect scales is an important fire protection engineering skill. Construction and fire protection equipment drawings must be interpreted with a high degree of accuracy.
Given an architect or engineer scale and a set of scaled drawings, this job aid will show you how to select the correct scale (tool) and interpret dimensions with 100 percent accuracy.
Using Engineer and Architect Scales PDF 817 KB“interFIRE VRTM“ is a virtual reality fire investigation training program available to the firefighting community, law enforcement and the insurance industry. It combines numerous high resolution film images into a single 360 degree navigable scene that puts you "in the shoes" of a fire investigator arriving at a fire scene.
The training program lets you (as the investigator) tour the entire fire scene, inside and out. As in any real investigation, you are faced with decisions that will be critical to the success of your investigation. Questions to be answered include:
The computer program keeps track of choices and compares them to "best practices" recommended by a panel of experts.
If you determine that the fire was intentionally set, you must conduct a follow-up investigation with insurers and others who have important information. This program has a large section on insurance fraud investigation, underwriting against arson and other information of vital interest to the insurance industry.
To obtain a copy of “interFIRE VR,” send a request on organizational letterhead signed by your department chief or supervisor. Please include your name, rank, name of organization, and a description of how you will use “interFIRE.“ Mail, fax or email your request to:
Tracey HefelfingerFirefighting is best learned by doing, but “live fire” training is expensive and dangerous for the trainee. It’s also difficult to provide training on the wide range of fire conditions that firefighters might experience in a real-world fire.
To help provide safe, cost-effective, and varied training for firefighters, USFA teamed up with the National Institute of Standards and Technology to develop a computer-based training tool.
Download the tool for access to:
"Skills Crosswalk: Wildland Training for Structural Firefighters" PDF 572 KB identifies critical wildland firefighting skills that structural firefighters need to be safe and effective in an initial attack on a wildland fire in their jurisdiction or when working with state and federal wildland firefighters.
The Crosswalk compares National Fire Protection Association structural firefighting standards with National Wildfire Coordinating Group wildland firefighting Position Task Books. It identifies wildland skills and knowledge that qualified and experienced firefighters would not already have acquired through their structural firefighting training.
By incorporating a structural firefighter’s existing fire suppression knowledge and skills, use of the Crosswalk:
USFA offers free training materials for delivery of the following wildland structural firefighting courses:
For more information and to order these training materials, please email us.
