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FireRescue Team
EMERGENCY RESPONSE TEAM (E.M.T.)
Rapid Deployment Search and Rescue/Recovery
Over 90 percent of Public Safety Diving (PSD) fatalities occur because teams are using sport diving or recreational technical procedures and equipment.
Unlike any other type of fire or law enforcement teams, dive teams routinely use recreational stores for training and gear. In later stages, dive teams may be trained by sport instructors designated as public safety instructors just because they are on a dive team.
It is time to learn the safest and most effective public safety diving procedures available today.
In this class participants will learn to safely manage entanglement/entrapment, in-water injury, low or out-of-air emergencies, and contamination problems.
Other topics include PSD accidents—why they happen and how to prevent them, what should be in SOP/SOG’s to protect safety and liability of team members and department, minimum equipment and personnel, common safety mistakes, blackwater contingencies, small evidence search and recovery, underwater panicked diver management, accident prevention tending skills, tender-diver gear checks, air consumption procedures, scene management, tethered-tender-directed-solo-diver patterns and why they are the safest and most effective for most operations, make go/no-go decisions with a practiced plan, watercraft procedures for dive operations, and keeping team morale up.
This class meets or exceeds standards outlined in Chapter 9, Water Search and Rescue, NFPA 1670, Standard Operations and Training for Technical Rescue Incidents, as well as, Chapter 13, Dive Rescue of NFPA 1006, Rescue Technician Professional Qualifications, 2003 edition.
Contact hours - 36
Prerequisite - Divers–MUST be Open-Water Certified; Tenders–None
Min/Max - 20/30
CEUs - Course may qualify for CEUs from the Division of Fire Safety or Bureau of EMS.
POST - 16 hours technical; 3 hours interpersonal; 4 hours legal; 9 hours skill
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