FIRE INVESTIGATOR COURSE

Invite-Only Joint Fire and Law Enforcement Training

Hybrid Delivery | 14 Sessions | 56 Total Instructional Hours | Maximum 4 Online Sessions Recommended

Course completion establishes a shared training baseline. It does not independently confer certification, law-enforcement authority, appointment to a Special Investigation Unit, or authority beyond the student’s agency role.

1. Course Identification

Implementation Status This document is a recommended local curriculum and syllabus. The host agency should verify any separate UFRA, IFSAC, Pro Board, state certification, accreditation, testing, or instructor-qualification requirements before representing the course as a certification program.

2. Course Purpose

The purpose of the Fire Investigator Course is to prepare selected fire and law enforcement personnel to operate safely, professionally, consistently, and collaboratively during fire and explosion investigations. The course establishes a common operational foundation for personnel who may support or be assigned to a future joint Special Investigation Unit.

Instruction emphasizes systematic scene examination, scene safety, fire behavior, documentation, evidence preservation, hypothesis development, hypothesis testing, interagency coordination, professional report writing, case preparation, and courtroom presentation. The course is intended to strengthen investigative capability while preserving the legal authority, responsibilities, and chain of command of each participating agency.

3. Curriculum Design

·   The course may be delivered through a combination of in-person and live online instruction. The instructor and host agency may determine the delivery method for individual sessions based on course needs, student availability, facilities, and the ability to meet the stated learning objectives.

·   Recommended delivery balance: at least 10 of the 14 sessions should be conducted in person. No more than four sessions, representing up to 16 instructional hours, should ordinarily be delivered online. A greater online portion should be used only when the instructor can provide equivalent engagement, supervision, participation, and evaluation.

·   Lecture, reading, discussion, chapter review, legal foundations, documentation concepts, and case analysis are generally appropriate for online delivery. Hands-on scene work, safety demonstrations, equipment use, documentation exercises, evidence handling, practical evaluations, and the integrated final exercise are strongly recommended for in-person delivery.

·   The host agency retains discretion to adjust the delivery schedule. Any online session shall remain live, instructor-led, interactive, and subject to the remote participation requirements contained in this syllabus.

4. Student Selection and Prerequisites

·   Attendance is by invitation only and should be based on agency need, investigative responsibility, professional maturity, availability for future callout response, and potential assignment to the Special Investigation Unit.

·   Students should have sufficient fire-service or law-enforcement experience to understand incident command, scene control, professional documentation, and interagency operations.

·   Students must be able to safely participate in field exercises involving uneven terrain, debris, personal protective equipment, kneeling, lifting, photography, measurement, and extended scene examination.

·   Students may not use respiratory protection unless all applicable medical evaluation, fit-testing, training, and agency requirements have been completed.

·   The instructor may require preliminary reading, agency policy review, or baseline knowledge checks before the first class session.

5. Program Learning Outcomes

·   Describe the role, authority, responsibilities, ethical obligations, and limitations of a fire investigator.

·   Operate within the incident management system and coordinate with fire, law enforcement, utilities, forensic laboratories, medical examiners, prosecutors, insurers, and other interested parties.

·   Conduct and continually update a site safety assessment, select appropriate protective measures, and stop investigative activity when conditions are unsafe.

·   Apply foundational fire dynamics and building-construction knowledge to scene examination without relying on unsupported pattern interpretation.

·   Recognize building systems, fire protection systems, utilities, electrical systems, renewable-energy systems, and stored-energy hazards relevant to fire investigations.

·   Secure, document, and process a fire or explosion scene using a systematic and reproducible approach.

·   Identify, collect, package, preserve, label, transfer, and document evidence while maintaining chain of custody and minimizing contamination.

·   Conduct exterior and interior examinations and integrate physical evidence, witness information, fire effects, suppression activity, and scene documentation.

·   Develop and test origin and cause hypotheses against the totality of available data and properly retain an undetermined conclusion when the evidence does not support a specific cause.

·   Prepare clear investigative notes, diagrams, reports, case files, presentations, and testimony using objective and legally defensible language.

6. Components Recommended for In-Person Delivery

·   Incident Management and Scene Safety: Command check-in, accountability, site safety assessment, PPE selection, atmospheric monitoring, hazard communication, stop-work decisions, and decontamination are best taught and evaluated in person.

·   Fire Dynamics and Pattern Application: Instructor-led demonstrations, ventilation and flow-path discussion, fire effects, suppression effects, limitations of pattern interpretation, and hypothesis testing should ordinarily include an in-person application component.

·   Building Systems, Utilities, and Electrical Examination: Recognition of utility hazards, electrical distribution, appliances, photovoltaic systems, batteries, energy-storage systems, generators, gas systems, and technical-assistance needs should include direct observation of components, props, or field conditions whenever practical.

·   Scene Documentation: Photography, photo logs, measurements, field sketches, diagrams, evidence markers, notes, and documentation before and after scene alteration should be demonstrated through instructor-observed practical work.

·   Evidence Handling: Recognition, collection, packaging, sealing, labeling, contamination control, chain of custody, storage, transfer, and laboratory coordination should be completed through hands-on practical work.

·   Scene Examination and Origin/Cause Analysis: Exterior and interior examination, debris-layer processing, reconstruction, area-of-origin analysis, hypothesis development, hypothesis testing, and conclusion language are strongly recommended for in-person delivery.

·   Interviews, Case Preparation, and Testimony: Role-play, witness coordination, case conferences, direct examination, cross-examination, limitations, and professional presentation benefit from live instructor and peer interaction and should ordinarily be conducted in person.

·   Final Integrated Practical: A comprehensive scene or case exercise requiring safe operations, documentation, evidence handling, analysis, report preparation, and oral presentation is strongly recommended for in-person delivery and direct instructor observation.

Session 1 - Course Orientation, SIU Mission, and Investigator Role

Learning objectives

·   Explain course expectations, completion standards, and the purpose of a joint Special Investigation Unit.

·   Differentiate fire-service, law-enforcement, public-sector, and private-sector investigative roles.

·   Identify professional conduct, confidentiality, documentation, and callout expectations.

·   Complete a baseline knowledge and professional-development self-assessment.

Recommended delivery and activities: Instructor-led lecture, interagency discussion, SIU mission exercise, baseline assessment.

Session 2 - Legal Foundations, Authority, Ethics, and Liaison

Learning objectives

·   Identify the source and limits of investigative authority.

·   Recognize when consent, continued administrative access, a warrant, or legal consultation may be required.

·   Describe liaison relationships with law enforcement, medical examiner/coroner, utilities, laboratories, insurers, prosecutors, and technical specialists.

·   Apply ethical and professional standards to information sharing and scene access.

Recommended delivery and activities: This module is suitable for in-person or live online delivery. Activities may include assigned reading, recorded instruction, discussion response, knowledge check, and a short legal/liaison scenario.

Session 3 - Incident Management and Scene Safety

Learning objectives

·   Check in through the incident management system and maintain accountability.

·   Conduct and document an initial and continuous site safety assessment.

·   Select appropriate PPE and recognize its limitations.

·   Use monitoring information to support entry, respiratory-protection, and stop-work decisions.

·   Apply decontamination and contaminated-equipment transport practices.

Recommended delivery and activities: Safety briefing, PPE/monitoring demonstration, hazard walk-through, stop-work scenario, decon practical.

Session 4 - Fire Dynamics and Construction Theory

Learning objectives

·   Explain combustion, heat transfer, fire growth, ventilation, and compartment fire development.

·   Describe how fuel packages and ventilation affect fire effects.

·   Identify major construction classifications and structural systems relevant to fire investigation.

·   Prepare for in-person fire-pattern and construction application.

Recommended delivery and activities: This theory-focused module may be delivered in person or live online. Activities may include modules, recorded demonstrations, reading, a fire-development worksheet, and a quiz.

Session 5 - Fire Dynamics, Patterns, and Construction Application

Learning objectives

·   Relate fire effects to ventilation, fuel, geometry, duration, suppression, and overhaul.

·   Recognize limitations of individual fire patterns.

·   Use multiple data sources rather than a single pattern to evaluate potential origin areas.

·   Identify construction-related hazards and fire-spread pathways.

Recommended delivery and activities: Instructor demonstrations, photograph sets, case exercise, construction props or site walk-through.

Session 6 - Documentation and Report Writing

Learning objectives

·   Organize contemporaneous notes, photo logs, diagrams, and case files.

·   Distinguish facts, observations, witness statements, analysis, and conclusions.

·   Use objective language and avoid unsupported certainty.

·   Draft a concise investigative narrative and identify missing documentation.

Recommended delivery and activities: This module may be delivered in person or live online. Activities may include recorded instruction, sample report critique, photo-log exercise, and a written narrative assignment.

Session 7 - Systems, Utilities, Electrical, Solar, and Stored Energy

Learning objectives

·   Recognize electrical service, distribution, branch circuits, appliances, and potential energized components.

·   Identify natural gas, LPG, water, sewer, generator, solar photovoltaic, battery, and energy-storage hazards.

·   Determine when utility or technical specialist assistance is required.

·   Document systems and components without exceeding training or authority.

Recommended delivery and activities: Component stations, utility tabletop, electrical recognition exercise, solar/ESS and generator scenarios.

Session 8 - Initial Investigative Actions and Witness Coordination

Learning objectives

·   Establish investigative priorities after arrival.

·   Coordinate scene security, ownership/control, access, and evidence preservation.

·   Identify witnesses and develop an interview sequence.

·   Create a preliminary investigative plan based on safety, legal authority, and available resources.

Recommended delivery and activities: Command check-in role-play, scene-control tabletop, witness map, investigative-plan worksheet.

Session 9 - Scene Documentation Practical

Learning objectives

·   Capture overall, midrange, and close-up photographs.

·   Maintain a complete photo log and cross-reference evidence markers.

·   Take measurements and prepare a field sketch and scene diagram.

·   Produce notes that allow another competent investigator to understand what was observed and changed.

Recommended delivery and activities: Hands-on documentation stations and graded field package.

Session 10 - Evidence Collection and Chain of Custody

Learning objectives

·   Develop an evidence-collection plan.

·   Select appropriate packaging and contamination controls.

·   Seal, label, document, transfer, and store evidence.

·   Maintain a complete chain of custody and identify laboratory submission needs.

Recommended delivery and activities: Evidence stations, packaging exercise, transfer simulation, chain-of-custody review.

Session 11 - Fire and Explosion Scene Examination

Learning objectives

·   Conduct systematic exterior and interior examinations.

·   Recognize fire effects, suppression effects, structural hazards, and potential evidence locations.

·   Process debris layers and document reconstruction or movement.

·   Integrate scene data with witness and incident information.

Recommended delivery and activities: Practical scene examination or comprehensive case simulation.

Session 12 - Area of Origin, Cause, and Hypothesis Testing

Learning objectives

·   Identify and evaluate potential areas of origin.

·   Develop multiple hypotheses that account for available data.

·   Test hypotheses against physical evidence, witness information, fire dynamics, and known limitations.

·   Use an undetermined conclusion when the available data do not support a specific cause.

Recommended delivery and activities: Hypothesis matrix, team case analysis, instructor challenge, written conclusion paragraph.

Session 13 - Case Preparation and Courtroom Testimony

Learning objectives

·   Organize a case for technical, supervisory, prosecutorial, or peer review.

·   Explain methods, findings, limitations, and opinions clearly.

·   Respond professionally during direct and cross-examination.

·   Avoid speculation and accurately distinguish facts from opinions.

Recommended delivery and activities: Case conference, exhibit review, mock testimony, instructor and peer feedback.

Session 14 - Integrated Final Practical

Learning objectives

·   Apply the complete investigative process safely and systematically.

·   Produce a defensible documentation and evidence package.

·   Develop and test origin and cause hypotheses.

·   Submit a written report and orally present findings and limitations.

Recommended delivery and activities: Integrated scene/case practical, written report, oral presentation, remediation plan if required.

Minimum final practical package

·   Documented command check-in, safety assessment, hazard controls, and accountability plan.

·   Complete notes, photo log, measurements, field sketch or diagram, and scene-examination record.

·   Evidence inventory, packaging documentation, transfer record, and chain-of-custody documentation.

·   Origin and cause hypothesis matrix identifying supporting, inconsistent, and unavailable data.

·   Written investigative report separating facts, observations, witness information, analysis, and conclusions.

·   Oral case presentation that explains methodology, findings, limitations, and recommended follow-up.

Critical failure conditions

·   Unsafe action or intentional disregard of a stop-work direction.

·   Loss, contamination, mislabeling, or undocumented transfer of evidence.

·   Unsupported cause opinion, fabricated data, or material misrepresentation.

·   Failure to maintain scene accountability or required legal/agency coordination.

1. Course Information

2. Course Description

The Fire Investigator Course is an invite-only hybrid training program developed to prepare selected fire and law enforcement personnel for future participation in a joint Special Investigation Unit. Students receive instruction and practical experience in investigator responsibilities and authority, scene safety, fire dynamics, building construction, building systems and utilities, electrical fire analysis, initial investigative actions, documentation, evidence collection and preservation, fire and explosion scene examination, area-of-origin determination, cause determination, report writing, case preparation, and courtroom testimony.

The course emphasizes a systematic and legally defensible investigative process. Students are expected to apply critical thinking, scene safety practices, objective documentation, evidence preservation, hypothesis development, hypothesis testing, interagency coordination, and professional communication.

3. Course Format and Workload

·   Fourteen structured sessions, with each session representing approximately four instructional hours. The host agency and instructor may designate individual sessions for in-person or live online delivery.

·   Recommended minimum in-person delivery: 10 sessions, totaling approximately 40 instructional hours.

·   Recommended maximum online delivery: four sessions, totaling no more than approximately 16 instructional hours. Online sessions may include live lecture, assigned reading, recorded material, discussion, quizzes, case analysis, and written work.

·   The exact delivery format for each session will be announced by the instructor. Practical, safety-critical, evidence-handling, scene-examination, and performance-evaluation activities should be scheduled in person whenever reasonably available.

·   Supplemental reading and preparation may be assigned outside the 56 structured instructional hours. Students should plan for additional time to complete reports, case exercises, and remediation assignments.

4. Required and Recommended Materials

·   Assigned Fire Investigator course textbook or electronic curriculum access.

·   Access to applicable agency policies, forms, scene-safety procedures, evidence procedures, and report-writing requirements.

·   Notebook or approved electronic note-taking device, writing instruments, and basic measurement tools as directed.

·   Camera or agency-approved imaging device when assigned.

·   Laptop or tablet capable of accessing the online learning platform and completing written assignments.

·   Agency-approved PPE for practical sessions, as directed by the instructor.

·   Respiratory protection only when authorized and when the student has completed required medical evaluation, fit testing, and training.

·   Recommended reference access: recognized fire investigation methodology and applicable professional-qualification requirements, as identified by the instructor.

5. Course Schedule and Assignment Sequence

6. Recommended Evaluation and Grading

Recommended completion standard: Minimum 80 percent overall, completion of all assigned coursework regardless of delivery format, and a passing determination on every critical safety, evidence, scene-examination, and final-practical component. The instructor may use pass/fail competency scoring instead of percentage scoring if required by the host agency or certifying authority.

7. Attendance, Participation, and Online Attendance Policy

·   Students are expected to attend every scheduled session, whether delivered in person or online, and to remain actively engaged for the full instructional period.

·   The delivery method does not reduce course expectations. Students must complete all assigned discussions, exercises, knowledge checks, practical activities, and evaluations.

·   A student who misses a practical or instructor-observed evaluation must complete an instructor-approved make-up or remediation assignment. Practical remediation should ordinarily be completed in person.

·   Students are expected to arrive or log in on time, remain for the full session, and participate in assigned team activities, discussions, exercises, and evaluations.

·   Assigned readings, quizzes, written work, and preparatory activities must be completed by the stated deadline and normally before the related practical or application session.

·   Failure to participate, failure to comply with online attendance requirements, or failure to complete assigned coursework is treated as an attendance and participation deficiency.

·   Repeated absence, failure to participate, unsafe conduct, or failure to meet professional expectations may result in removal from the course after coordination with the sponsoring agency.

Online Attendance Requirements

·         Students attending a class session online must have a functioning camera and keep the camera on for the entire instructional period, except during scheduled breaks or when specifically authorized by the instructor.

·         The camera must provide a clear, continuous view of the student sufficient for the instructor to verify attendance and participation.

·         Students must have a functioning microphone connected and available throughout class. Students shall unmute promptly when called upon, during discussion, and whenever directed by the instructor.

·         Online students are required to participate in class discussions, questions, polls, breakout activities, case reviews, and other interactive assignments to the same extent as students attending in person.

·         Students may not attend online while driving, performing unrelated work duties, or participating in activities that prevent full attention and engagement.

·         Camera, microphone, connection, or platform problems must be reported to the instructor immediately. Extended inability to maintain video, audio, or participation may be treated as an absence and may require make-up work.

·         Reasonable accommodations or temporary exceptions must be approved by the instructor or sponsoring agency in advance when practicable.

8. Safety Policy

·   Students shall follow the incident management system, instructor directions, host-agency safety procedures, and all site-specific controls.

·   Every student is responsible for identifying and communicating hazards and for stopping work when conditions exceed available training, equipment, authority, or controls.

·   No student may enter a hazardous environment, disturb debris, handle evidence, use tools, or operate monitoring or respiratory equipment without instructor authorization.

·   Practical exercises may be modified, delayed, relocated, or terminated based on weather, structural conditions, atmospheric hazards, staffing, equipment, or other safety concerns.

·   Horseplay, intentional bypass of safety controls, or disregard of instructor direction is grounds for immediate removal from the exercise and may be grounds for dismissal from the course.

9. Professional Conduct, Confidentiality, and Case Material

·   Students shall maintain professional conduct consistent with fire-service, law-enforcement, and public-agency expectations.

·   Course photographs, reports, witness information, case files, and scenarios shall be treated according to the instructor’s confidentiality instructions and applicable agency policy.

·   Actual case information may not be photographed, copied, distributed, posted, or discussed outside the course unless specifically authorized.

·   Students shall distinguish factual information from assumptions, hearsay, analysis, and opinions during discussion and written work.

·   Completion of the course does not authorize a student to represent themselves as a certified fire investigator unless separate certification requirements have been met.

10. Written Work and Report Standards

·   Written work shall be organized, legible, objective, and submitted in the format directed by the instructor.

·   Reports shall separate observations, witness statements, documentation, analysis, and conclusions.

·   Students shall not speculate or overstate findings. Appropriate language includes “based on available information,” “consistent with,” “unable to rule out,” and “requires further examination.”

·   Origin and cause opinions must identify the data relied upon, alternative hypotheses considered, and the basis for retaining or rejecting each hypothesis.

·   An undetermined finding is appropriate when the available data are insufficient to support a specific cause or when multiple hypotheses cannot be eliminated through valid testing.

·   Plagiarism, fabrication, intentional alteration of data, or misrepresentation of investigative findings is grounds for failure and referral to the sponsoring agency.

11. Use of Technology and Artificial Intelligence

·   Technology may be used for note organization, diagrams, research, writing assistance, and presentation preparation only as permitted by the instructor and agency policy.

·   Students remain responsible for the accuracy, completeness, confidentiality, and legal defensibility of all submitted work.

·   Confidential, criminal-justice, protected health, personally identifiable, or nonpublic case information shall not be entered into public or unapproved artificial-intelligence systems.

·   AI-generated conclusions may not replace independent scene examination, evidence analysis, hypothesis testing, or professional judgment.

·   The instructor may require disclosure of technology or AI assistance used in an assignment.

12. Make-Up, Remediation, and Reassessment

·   The instructor may assign remediation when a student does not meet a written or practical performance standard but can reasonably achieve competency within the course schedule.

·   Critical safety, evidence, chain-of-custody, scene-examination, and final-practical deficiencies must be corrected through direct instructor observation.

·   Make-up work is not guaranteed and is subject to instructor availability, scene or prop availability, and sponsoring-agency approval.

·   A student who cannot demonstrate required competency after remediation may receive an incomplete or unsuccessful course outcome.

13. Accessibility and Reasonable Accommodation

Students who require a reasonable accommodation should notify the instructor or sponsoring agency as early as possible. Accommodations should preserve essential safety and performance requirements while providing equitable access to instruction and evaluation.

14. Completion Requirements

·   Complete all scheduled sessions or approved make-up/remediation requirements.

·   Complete all assigned modules, readings, discussions, quizzes, written work, and practical activities regardless of delivery format.

·   Pass the required scene-safety practical.

·   Demonstrate satisfactory scene-documentation and evidence-handling competency.

·   Complete the origin/cause hypothesis exercise using a systematic process.

·   Complete the mock testimony or case-presentation requirement.

·   Pass the integrated final practical and submit the required written report.

·   Maintain professional conduct and comply with course safety and confidentiality requirements.

Administrative limitation: Successful completion documents completion of this local training program. Appointment to a Special Investigation Unit, callout eligibility, independent case authority, and certification status remain decisions of the participating agencies and applicable certifying authorities.

Incident Management and Accountability

Site Safety

Documentation

Evidence

Scene Examination

Origin and Cause Analysis

Case Presentation

I acknowledge that I have received or been given access to the Fire Investigator Course syllabus. I understand that this is an invite-only professional development course that may include both in-person and live online instruction. I understand the attendance, online participation, safety, confidentiality, conduct, evaluation, and completion requirements.

I further understand that course completion does not independently confer law-enforcement authority, fire-investigator certification, appointment to a Special Investigation Unit, or authorization to conduct investigations beyond the authority granted by my agency.

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Company Officer

Welcome to the Company Officer online course.

This Course is a Fire Officer Level I and II course.  If you are doing Level I then you need to complete all the content in Chapters 1 to 11.  If you are completing Fire Officer II then complete Chapters 12 - 17.  

If you have any questions please Contact TO Smith at 705-328-4554 or casmith@kawarthalakes.ca

The Fire Officer 2 course is a mid-level management program that builds on Fire Officer 1, focusing on the responsibilities of a "managing fire officer" to supervise multiple fire companies. Course content includes government administration, human resources, budgeting, purchasing, media relations, fire origin and cause investigation, post-incident analysis, and developing an incident action plan for multi-unit responses. It meets the job performance requirements outlined in the NFPA 1021 standard and typically prepares students for national certification exams.

Apparatus Operator Pump- Basic  (AOP-Basic ) This course was developed using content from IFSTA's Pumping and Aerial Apparatus Driver/Operator Handbook, 4th edition to meet job performance requirements from NFPA® 1010 Chapter 12 (2024)

NFPA Fire Pump Operator's Academy is a 32 hour program that includes both classroom and hands-on training.

The program meets NFPA 1002: Standards for Fire Apparatus Driver/Operator Professional Qualifications and follows the International Fire Service Training Association (IFSTA) Pumping Apparatus curriculum.

Students will be presented with essential information, written test, skills and practical exercises relevant to operating and pumping fire apparatus.

This training includes (but is not limited to):

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• Online Classroom Sessions
• Overview of Water Supply Systems
• Friction Loss and Calculations
• Basic Pump Operations
• Primer System
• Drafting Operations
• Portable Ponds
• Hydrant Water Supply
• Pumping to Handlines
• Pumping to Aerials and Monitors
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• Relief Valve / Pressure Governor
• Pumping from Tank
• Relay Pumping
• Foam Operations
• Troubleshooting
• And more…

Participants will be required to demonstrate proficiency with the delivered skills, including the use of various appliances, hose stretches, maintaining a water supply, managing proper flows and pressures, troubleshooting, foam operations and more.

Fire Officer I Hybrid Syllabus

Instructor Information

Name: Donald Richardson                       

Email: drichardson@d7fr.org

Expected response: Instructors will respond to student emails within 2 business days.

Phone: 210-688-0665

The best method to reach your instructor is email. The goal of the instructor is to help you be successful during the course. You should immediately contact the instructor if you have any questions about the course or course work.

Communication Procedures

Email will be the primary way students can contact their instructor. As such, it is important to following these guidelines:

•              Be respectful of one another’s time. Students can expect Instructors to respond to communication within 2 business days.

•              Be clear in your message. Students are expected to include the course Title and Section first in your subject line. For example, your subject line will be “FOI.001 Questions about assignment” or “FOI.001 Missing assignment deadline due to emergency.”

Course Overview

This is a hybrid course including both online and face-to-face components. Online modules will run from [JUNE 17] to [AUGUST 12] for 8 weeks. Students will have an opportunity to ask questions online before posting assignments each week by midnight on any given day.  Students must remember that instructors will respond to emails within 2 business days.

This is an 8-week course: 92 hours of instruction will be delivered through 8 weeks of online instruction including online activities, quizzes, discussion, and other assessments. The course prepares the student for the Fire Officer I certification process.

The fee for the course is $0

Course Prerequisites

This course covers 11 chapters of course material and includes TCFP skills. The course material will include online power points, quizzes and tests and chapter outlines. Weekly access to a computer with Microsoft Office is a must.

Course Goals and Objectives

After completing the course, the student will have met the sections required for a Fire Officer I in the NFPA^® 1021, 2014 edition, Standard for Fire O Professional Qualifications. Students who successfully complete the certification process will be certified as a Fire Officer I.Learning objectives are identified on a chapter-by-chapter basis and can be found in detail in the text required for the course.

Text

REQUIRED

The required text for the course is IFSTA’s Fire and Emergency Services Company Officer, 5^th edition.

Every student must have a copy of the text in order to prepare for class, study for the certification process, and complete the assignments and learning activities.

Students will be provided with online access through ResourceOne to daily activities to be completed as assigned.

OPTIONAL

While not required, the Fire and Emergency Services Company Officer, 5^th edition Exam Prep is a valuable tool to help a student or candidate to successfully pass a written exam based on the content of this course. This exam prep is available in print and electronic versions.

The manual and exam prep are available from ResourceOne

Course Schedule

This course is organized into 8 weekly modules. Modules are accessed online through IFSTA’s ResourceOne. Each module follows a similar format that includes: a weekly reading, assignment, quizzes, and tests. Modules are completed in preparation for face-to-face meetings held the last two scheduled skills day. New modules open every week.

Week 1 (June 17 – 24): Chapter 01 - The Company Officer I

                                        Chapter 02 - Organizational Structure

Week 2 (June 24 – July 1): Chapter 03 - Leadership and Supervision

Week 3 (July 1 – 08):     Chapter 04 - Human Resources Management

Week 4 (July 8 – 15):     Chapter 05 – Communications

                                         Chapter 06 - Administrative Functions

Week 5 (July 15 – 22):   Chapter 07 - Health and Safety Issues

Week 6 (July 22 – 29):   Chapter 08 – Company-Level Training

                                         Chapter 09 - Community Relations and Company Fire Inspect

Week 7 (July 29 – Aug. 5): Chapter 10 – Pre-incident Surveys

                                              Chapter 11 - Delivery of Emergency Services I

Week 8 (August 5 – 12):    Course Final Exam and TCFP Skills Exam

Homework Assignment

Each week, students will have assignments, quizzes and tests due as listed in Online Course Schedule.

Course Evaluation Strategy

At the end of this course, students will be able to evaluate the course and its instructor(s) via Course Evaluation Sheet. This sheet will be provided to students upon the completion of skills.

Course Participation

The course utilizes lecture, open discussions, and group activities to achieve the learning objectives. Every student is expected to:

·         come to course prepared to actively participate in discussions,

·         read the text prior to the next class session,

·         complete all homework assignments,

·         respect the beliefs, opinions, and values of other students,

·         and have an open mind about the issues being discussed.

Technical Support

Please contact your instructor in the case of questions regarding assignments.

In the case of technological issues (information will not load, quizzes not working correctly, dropbox malfunction, etc) please contact:

IFSTA Resource One Tech Support

(405) 744-5048

support@osufpp.org

Please note this tech support is staffed from 8-5 CST

Academic Dishonesty Policy

Academic misconduct includes cheating, plagiarism, falsification of records, unauthorized possession of examinations, intimidation, and any and all other actions that may improperly affect the evaluation of a student’s academic performance or achievement; assisting others in any such act; or attempts to engage in such acts. Any incident of academic misconduct will result in the student being dropped from the course and the student’s sponsoring agency being notified of the incident.

Fire Officer I Certification Process - General Information

The Final Exam and the state approved TCFP skills will be performed at predetermined location. This information will be delivered to students prior to the commencement of class. The TCFP skills will be conducted in a proctored setting according to RULE 427.305(d).

The TCFP written test will be scheduled by the student at a TCFP regional test site.