RESCUE

2022 – 2023 COURSE OFFERINGS

RESCUE

The following list of course offerings is accurate as of July 1, 2022. Existing courses are revised and new courses are developed throughout the academic year, so please reference the MFRI website, mfri.org, for the most current list of available classes, course lengths, and prerequisites.

RESCUE TECHNICIAN: CONFINED SPACE RESCUE REQUIRES MEDICAL CLEARANCE

Course Code: RES 202

Course Length: 33 Hours

Prerequisite(s): MFRI Personal Protective Equipment and SCBA (FIRE 098), Firefighter I (FIRE 101) or equivalent, or certification, and Rescue Technician: Site Operations (RES 101) or Rescue Technician: Site Operations and Vehicle and Machinery Rescue (RES 201) or equivalent, or certification.

Course Description: Major topics covered in this course include safety; IDLH and OSHA regulations; extrication techniques in vertical and horizontal environments; and non-entry rescues.

RESCUE TECHNICIAN: SITE OPERATIONS

Course Code: RES 101

Course Length: 27 Hours

Prerequisite(s): MFRI Personal Protective Equipment and SCBA (FIRE 098), Firefighter I (FIRE 101) or equivalent

Course Description: Major topics covered in the course include identification of support resources required for specific rescue incidents; size-up of a rescue incident; management of rescue incident hazards; management of resources in a rescue incident; conducting searches; performance of ground support for helicopter activities; termination of a technical rescue operation; triage of victims; movement of a victim in a low-angle environment; transfer of a victim to emergency medical services; tying knots, bends, and hitches; constructing a single-point anchor system; constructing a simple rope mechanical advantage system; constructing a lowering system; directing a lowering operation in a low- and highangle environment; constructing and operating a belay system during a lowering or raising operation in a high-angle environment; and conducting a system safety check.

RESCUE TECHNICIAN: STRUCTURAL COLLAPSE REQUIRES MEDICAL CLEARANCE

Course Code: RES 209

Course Length: 84 Hours

Prerequisite(s): Personal Protective Equipment and SCBA (FIRE 098), Firefighter I (FIRE 101) or equivalent, and Rescue Technician: Site Operations (RES 101) or Rescue Technician: Site Operations and Vehicle and Machinery Rescue (RES 201)

Course Description: Major topics covered in this course include safety and security; building materials and structural collapse; collapse patterns; hazard identification and building monitoring; US&R strategy and structure size-up; tools; shoring basics; shoring construction; breaching; breaking; cutting and burning operations; lifting and rigging; and victim considerations.

RESCUE TECHNICIAN: SWIFTWATER RESCUE REQUIRES MEDICAL CLEARANCE

Course Code: RES 213

Course Length: 51 Hours

Prerequisite(s): MFRI Personal Protective Equipment and SCBA (FIRE 098), Firefighter I (FIRE 101) or equivalent, and Rescue Technician: Site Operations (RES 101) or Rescue Technician: Site Operations and Vehicle and Machinery Rescue (RES 201). Participants must be able to swim 100 yards without stopping or using a flotation device and be able to tread water for five minutes without using a flotation device.

Course Description: Major topics covered in this course are water hydrology; pre-incident planning; incident size-up; incident management; safety; communications; victim rescue; surface watercraft; various in-water drills; par buckling; low-head dam phenomenon; swiftwater operations; pre-incident planning; incident management; hazard mitigation; mechanical advantage rope rescue systems; highline rescue systems; mock night search; and other advanced rope rescue skills.

RESCUE TECHNICIAN: TECHNICAL ROPE RESCUE

Course Code: RES 205

Course Length: 54 Hours

Prerequisite(s): MFRI Personal Protective Equipment and SCBA (FIRE 098), Firefighter I (FIRE 101) or equivalent, and Rescue Technician: Site Operations (RES 101) or Rescue Technician: Site Operations and Vehicle and Machinery Rescue (RES 201)

Course Description: Major topics covered in the course include anchoring; mechanical advantage systems; rappelling in the vertical environment; and constructing high-line rescue systems.

RESCUE TECHNICIAN: TRENCH RESCUE OPERATIONS REQUIRES MEDICAL CLEARANCE

Course Code: RES 206

Course Length: 30 Hours

Prerequisite(s): MFRI Personal Protective Equipment and SCBA (FIRE 098), Firefighter I (FIRE 101) or equivalent, and Rescue Technician: Site Operations (RES 101) or Rescue Technician: Site Operations and Vehicle and Machinery Rescue (RES 201)

Course Description: Major topics covered in this course include preparation and response; support operations and trench access; disentanglement; trench rescue equipment; and intersecting and nonintersecting trenches.

Course Code: RES 210

Course Length: 27 Hours

Prerequisite(s): MFRI Personal Protective Equipment and SCBA (FIRE 098), Firefighter I (FIRE 101) or equivalent

Course Description: Major topics covered in this course include planning for a vehicle or machinery rescue incident; performing ongoing incident size-up; establishing scene safety zones; establishing fire protection; stabilizing vehicles or machines; isolating potentially harmful energy sources; determining access and egress points; creating access and egress opening; disentangling victims; removing packaged victims; and terminating vehicle or machinery rescue incidents.