This course is designed to provide the participants with the knowledge and skills that enable them to enhance fire fighters’ capabilities in performing effective rescue operations.

The course objectives of fire rescue missions training typically aim to equip firefighters with the knowledge and skills necessary to safely and effectively respond to fire incidents, including identifying hazards, performing search and rescue operations, controlling fire spread, utilizing appropriate firefighting tactics, and managing incident scenes, all while prioritizing the safety of both civilians and fellow firefighters. 

Key components of fire rescue missions training objectives include:

• Understanding fire behavior:

Recognizing the factors influencing fire spread, including fuel, oxygen, heat, and how to manage fire dynamics in different environments. 

• Incident scene management:

Establishing command, performing a size-up to assess hazards and potential risks, developing a strategy and tactics, and coordinating with other emergency responders. 

• Search and rescue operations:

Techniques for safely locating and removing victims from a burning structure, including proper use of search and rescue equipment. 

• Fire suppression tactics:

Applying appropriate firefighting techniques based on the type of structure, fire location, and available resources, including hose line management, ventilation strategies, and water application methods. 

• Hazardous materials awareness:

Recognizing potential hazardous materials on scene, understanding their properties, and taking necessary precautions to mitigate risks. 

• Personal protective equipment (PPE) usage:

Proper selection, inspection, and wear of PPE to ensure firefighter safety during operations. 

• Emergency medical response:

Basic life support skills to provide initial medical care to victims until advanced medical personnel arrive. 

• Communication skills:

Effective communication with dispatchers, other firefighters, and incident commanders to maintain situational awareness and coordinate actions. 

• Safety procedures:

Understanding and adhering to safety protocols including fireground accountability, crew integrity, and procedures for emergency egress. 

• Firefighters
• Rescue Personnel
• Fire Department Officers and Commanders
• Industrial Fire Response Teams

This interactive Training will be highly interactive, with opportunities to advance your opinions and ideas and will include;

• Lectures
• Workshop & Work Presentation
• Case Studies and Practical Exercise
• Videos and General Discussions

DAY ONE

Introduction

• Introduction to firefighter rescue missions
• Fire behavior & development
• Firefighting strategies and tactics
• Sources of heat, oxygen and their impacts
• Fire impact on various types of constructions
• Hazardous of exploration, production and enhanced oil recovery process industry.
• Characteristics of hydrocarbon releases.
• Concept of Boiling Liquid Expanding Vapor Explosions

DAY TWO

Basic principles of rescue procedures

• Rescue situations
• Rescuer physical and technical skills
• Characteristics of rescue team and leadership
• Rescue tools (selection, usage, maintenance)
• Primary and secondary causality rescue survey techniques
• Burning structures victim removal
• Drags and carries and causality extrication from motor vehicles
• Rescuer climb operations
• Equipment lifting and positioning
• Forcible entry video

DAY THREE

Basic principles of rescue procedures  (cont.)

• Causality descending and ascending on a stretcher.
• Principles of forcible entry
• Forcible entry, techniques and tools
• Robes handling techniques
• Crane boom basket rescue
• Causality manual transfer techniques
• Video & case study

DAY FOUR

Confined space rescue

• What are confined spaces
• Nature confined spaces
• Confined space gases
• Confined space rescue techniques
• Structural internal rescue missions.
• Video & Case study

DAY FIVE

First Aid

• Dealing with different types of wound and bleeding
• Types of fractures and dislocation
• Different types of splints
• Burns
• CPR
• Video & Case study

A RECTUS attendance certificate will be awarded to all participants who complete at least 80% of the total course duration.