2024-2025 College Catalog

FRE-101 Introduction to Fire Protection

Introduction to Fire Protection provides an overview to fire protection, career opportunities in fire protection, and related fields: philosophy and history of fire protection/service; fire loss analysis; organization and function of public and private fire protection services; fire departments as part of local government; laws and regulations affecting the fire service, fire service nomenclature; specific fire protection functions; basic fire chemistry and physics; introduction to fire protection systems; and introduction to fire strategy and tactics.

Credits

3

Prerequisite

None

IAI Code:

None

PCS Code:

1.2

Lecture:

3

Lab:

0