Fire Science Courses

This course is designed to give students a broad understanding of the fire service in the United States. The course focuses on history, organization, and the primary components that make up the various forms of fire protection services in America today. This course is required for those students having no previous exposure to the fire service such as Tri-Tech Fire Science courses or experience as a firefighter.

Management in the fire service explores the skills and techniques used by competent management in business, government, and voluntary organizations, with particular emphasis on their application to the fire service.

Discussion of basic firefighting tactics of company response, including size-up rescue, exposure, ventilation and fire problems, and tactics used.

A course designed to give the new inspector a basic concept of inspections that deal with fire hazards, authority to inspect, and how to conduct a pre-fire plan.

This course is a survey of hazardous materials, their physical properties, chemical properties, and how they relate to emergency first responders who are called to manage events related to the release of hazardous materials. This course is intended for individuals who are majoring in Fire Science or who are enrolled in the Washington State Firefighter Apprenticeship program.

An applied course covering special firefighting situations involving hazardous materials. This course is intended for individuals who are majoring in Fire Science or who are enrolled in the Washington State Firefighter Apprenticeship program.

A class used to explore new coursework or for a specific topic of special interest.

A class used to explore new coursework.

A course covering basic building construction, outlining the specific weaknesses of various constructions.

This course includes planning, implementing, and evaluating basic and advanced fire tactics at the command officer level.

Designed to give students a clear understanding of the principles and limitations of fire suppression and detection systems.

Includes methods of determining the area of fire origin, fire causes, fire spread, and the aspects of fire behavior; recognizing accidental and incendiary fires and securing and preserving evidence. Witness interrogation methods, arson laws, court procedures, and review of case histories are discussed.

This course is designed to give the firefighter an understanding of municipal water systems, principles of fluids, water in motion, formulas for calculating water flow and pressure, fire flow requirements, and basic fire stream calculations. This course prepares students, in part, for fire apparatus pump operations.

A class used to explore new coursework or for a specific topic of special interest.

A class used to explore new coursework.