Capacity : 30 Seats
Duration : 25 Weeks (including 2 weeks Industrial Visit).
Objectives : 1. To train the Fire Service Personnel who are in charge of the fire station or likely to hold independent charge of fire station.
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To look after the fire prevention & protection in the station jurisdiction.
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To impart training in the theory and practice of the fire prevention and modern fire protection methods.
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Preparedness for Disaster Situation.
: Age : Below 45 years Sponsored candidates only (5 years relaxation for SC/ST candidates).
Educational and Technical Qualifications :
a) Should have passed Matriculation or its equivalent.
b) Should have passed the Sub-Officers’ course of this College and served for a minimum period of three years as Leading Fireman or Sub-Officer or in the equivalent rank in an approved fire service organization.
c) Should possess a driving license for heavy motor vehicle. In case, a candidate does not possess this license, he should acquire the same before the Diploma of college is awarded to him.
Physical Standards :
Height : Not less than 165 cms.
Weight : Not less than 50 Kgs.
Chest Normal 81 cms. Expanded 86 cms.
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Course Contents :
Aircraft Fire & Rescue, Air Conditioning and Refrigeration, Breathing Apparatus, Building Construction and Structural Protection, Physics & Chemistry of Combustion, Discipline, Electricity, Explosives, Fire Extinguishers, Fire Service Administration, First Aid & Ambulance Aid, Fixed Fire Fighting Installation, Foam & Foam making equipment, Fire Hazards in Special Risk Area and Fire Protection, Fire Service Communication, Fire Prevention and Inspection Procedure, Gas Fires, Hose & Hose Fittings, Hydrant and Water Relay, Hydraulics, Internal Combustion Engines, Investigation of Fires, Ladders, Pumps Plan Reading, Practical Firemanship, Rescue Drills, Resuscitation, Rural & Forest Fires, Salvage, Ship Fires, Small Gears, Special Services, Storage of Hazardous Goods, Squad Drill and P.T., Water Tender, Maintenance of Equipment & Appliances, Fire Prevention and Fire Protection, Fire Protection Survey, Lecturette.
Practical Drill with Hose, Hydrant, Pump, Foam, Foam making equipments, Ladders, Small Gears, Hose Fitting, Salvage Equipments and Rescue Techniques.
(Note : This course is presently run by National Fire Service College, Govt. of India, Nagpur (Maharashtra))
(Details of Course Contents for Station Officers’ Course)
(i) Breathing apparatus
Written --
Types in use with brief description of working principles; circumstances in which each type can be used; care and maintenance.
Oral and practical --
Harnessing and actual use in smoke or gas laden chamber and standard test.
(ii) Building construction
Written --
Types of buildings; properties of various building materials and their behaviour in heat and fire, different construction of walls, roofs, floors, stairs, hearths and chimneys with flues, doors, windows, etc; their advantages and disadvantages in relation to fire risk. Placing of lifts, stairs, fire escapes, etc. in relation to occupancies.
(iii) Chemical extinguisher
Written --
Types in use with constructional details working principles with limitations of use their advantages and disadvantages; care and maintenance.
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Oral and practical -- Operational working; procedure of recharging after discharge and standard test.
(iv) Chemistry and Heat
Written -- Principles of chemistry; heat and combustion; fundamental chemical reactions with risk involved; risks with important chemical compounds and volatile liquids.
Oral and practical -- Laboratory experiments of production of heat, combustion and evolution of gases due to chemical reactions.
(v) Discipline
Written -- General rules of discipline; its importance in Fire Service and how it can be maintained; procedures in dealing with disciplinary matters.
(vi) Electricity
Written -- Principles of electricity and fire risks in relation to generation, distribution, domestic and industrial electrical hazards.
Oral and practical -- Creation of sparks due to static charge, short circuits and leakages.
(vii) Escape ladder (optional if not in use)
Written -- Types in use with brief description of constructions and working with appropriate identification of parts; care and maintenance.
Oral and practical -- Standard drills in slipping, pitching, bridging, correct methods of ascending and descending; standard tests.
(viii) Exercises (situation and tactical)
Oral and practical -- Exercises in practical fire fighting, with fire ground conditions incorporating various fire drills using different fire appliances and ladders and message work; night exercises.
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(ix) Fire Service Administration
Written -- Fire Station administration; maintenance of records of hose, occurrences, watchroom work, fire engines and other appliances; preparation of report of fires; special services and periodical returns.
(x) First Aid
Written -- General procedure; treatment of shock, wounds, burns and scalds, haemorrhage, fractures, etc. method of artificial respiration and bandaging. Oral and practical -- Demonstration of methods of treatment; artificial respiration and bandaging.
(xi) Fixed Fire Fighting Installation Written --
Systems of Dry risers, rising mains, internal hydrants, fire resisting doors and shutters and their uses.
(xii) Foam and foam equipment Written -- ritten --
Types and composition of foam and their properties, expansion ratio, stability, methods of creating mechanical and chemical foam with advantages and disadvantages. Construction and working principles of foam making equipment like foam branches, multiple jet and inline inductors, foam pourers and towers etc; care and maintenance.
Oral and practical -- Standard drills with foam equipment and standard tests.
(xiii) Gas Fires (optional)
Written -- Properties of different gases, the hazards relating to gases, hazards of domestic gas installations.
(xiv) Hook ladder
Written -- Constructional features; identification of parts; care and maintenance of ladder and belt.
Oral and practical -- One man and/two men standard drills to 4th floor with hose and rescue lines; standard tests.
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| (xv) Hose | |
| Written -- | Construction of delivery and suction hose; operational misuse; methods of testing; cleaning, drying and repairing, care and maintenance. |
| Oral and practical -- | Repairing and darning of hose, standard tests. |
| (xvi) Hose Drills | |
| Oral and practical -- | Three and four men standard drills; carrying, running, laying and making up of hose; adding, removing, replacing and raising to upper floors. |
| (xvii) Hose fittings | |
| Written -- | Construction of delivery and suction couplings, branches, nozzles, spray, diffuser, stream form and revolving branches, basement sprays, collecting and dividing breechings, suction collection heads, etc; their use, care and maintenance. |
| Oral and practical -- | Demonstration with each type of hose fitting. |
| (xviii) Hydrants | |
| Written -- | Construction of different types of hydrants, sizes of outlets and outlet fittings; methods of connecting to fire pumps, marking and hydrant pits and covers; care and maintenance. |
| (xix) Internal combustion engines | |
| Written -- | Principles of Internal combustion engine; types of ignition systems; electrical system; use of fuel, care and maintenance. |
| Oral and practical -- | Demonstration of actual moving parts in dismantled i.e. engines. |
| (xx) Knots and Lines | |
| Written -- | Types and composition of lines; working load, braking load and testing load; various knots and their uses; care and maintenance. |
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| Oral and practical -- | Tying of various knots; splicing and whipping of lines; |
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| (xxi) Ladders Written -- | standard tests. Types in use with brief description of construction and working with appropriate identification of parts; care and maintenance. |
| Oral and practical -- | Standard drills in slipping and pitching; correct methods of ascending and descending; standard tests. |
| (xxii) Physical & Squad Drills Oral and practical -- | Conduct of squad and physical drills with appropriate sequence and words of command; methods of presentation of parades and march past. |
| (xxiii)Pumps Written -- | Types use with constructional details and working principles; types of primers and methods of priming; testing and fault finding; care and maintenance. |
| Oral and practical -- | Demonstration of operating pumps of different types and priming systems, from hydrants and from an open source of water supply; standard tess. |
| (xxiv)Pump Drills Oral and practical -- | Standard drills with hose; hose reels; foam making equipments and places including upper floors; visual signals and whistle signals. |
| (xxv) Plan Reading (optional) Written -- | Importance of plan reading; methods of reading with explanation of common symbols in use. |
| (xxvi)Practical Firemanship Written -- | Qualities of a fireman; his important duties at Fire Station and Fire Ground. |
| Oral and practical -- | Methods of entry, rescue, roomsearching, working in darkness and in thick smoke; line signals |
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(xxvii)Rescue drills
Oral and practical -- Picking up, lowering and carrying insensible persons with Fireman’s life and lines rescues.
(xxviii) Refrigeration (optional)
Written -- Principles of refrigeration; properties and hazards of different regrigerants and actions to be taken in case of leakage.
(xxix) Resuscitation
Written -- Description of resuscitation sets, methods of working and circumstances when used; care and maintenance
Oral and practical -- Demonstration in use of resuscitation set.
(xxx) Rural Fires
Written -- Causes of rural fires; precautions to be taken in rural areas; methods of fighting rural fires.
(xxxi) Salvage
Written -- Meaning of salvage; how fire loss can be reduced by salvage; salvage equipments and their uses
Oral and practical -- Demonstration in salvage sheeting, indoor and outdoor chutes, drawing and mopping.
(xxxii) Small Gear
Written -- Types and uses of breaking in tools, door-openers, persuaders, bolt croppers, rescue gear, jacks and pulley blocks, axes, preventers, rakes, saws, etc. Oral and practical -- Demonstration in the operation of small gear
(xxxiii) Special appliances
Written --
Brief description and working principles of oxy-acetylene cutting plant, blower and exhauster machine, portable lighting sets, etc; their uses and precautions to be taken.
Oral and practical -- Operation of special gear.
(xxxiv) Special Services
Written -- Rescue of trapped persons from sewers, lifts, collapsed buildings and drowning; rescue of animals; methods to be used and precautions to be taken.
(xxxv) Sprinklers, Drenchers and CO2 Installations
Written -- Brief description and working principles of ‘wet’, ‘dry and ‘alternate’ systems of sprinklers and drenchers, CO2 methylbromide etc; installation; methods of spacing locating and uses, care and maintenance.
(xxxvi) Turn Table Ladders (Optional, if not in use)
Written -- Description and working principles of turn table ladders their advantages, situations when these can be used and precautions to be taken when in use; care and maintenance.
Oral and practical -- Demonstration of operating the ladder with varying loads, uneven surfaces and weather conditions, standard tests.
(xxxvii) Watch Room Procedure
Written --
Functions of watch room; method of working with fire alarm and telephone systems; fire around and control room messages; mobilizing procedure; maintenance of records, etc.
Oral and practical --
Demonstration of receiving and transmitting messages, log keeping and mobilization of Fire Force in major incidents.
(xxxviii) Water Problems
Written -- Study of pressure; heads, rate of flow, capacity and friction loss in relation to behaviour of water under pressure; discharge pressures of pumps and different nozzles.
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Oral and practical -- Demonstration of discharge of water from different nozzles at varying pressures; effect of jet and spray and length of throw.
(xxxix) Water Supply Written -- Principles of ‘series’ and ‘collector’ pumping; methods of arranging relays. Oral and practical -- Demonstration of ‘series’ and ‘collector’ pumping.
(xl) Lecturette (optional – For Instructors) Written -- Methods of imparting instructions and conducting training on various subjects on fire fighting, fire prevention, etc.
(xli) Special Risks
Group I
Hazardous storages in warehouses
Written -- Warehouses and storage sheds for hazardous goods and their construction from fire risk point of view, methods of storage and precautions to be taken.
Group II
Ships and Dock Risks
Written --
Principles of nautical stability of floating objects and safety limits; causes of fires in ships and methods of fire fighting.
Group III
Aircraft fires and rescue
Written -- Construction of aircraft; locations, emergency exits, fuel tanks, batteries, etc; usual causes of fires in aircraft; methods of rescue and of fire fighting.
* “Structure and Functions of Human Body”, “Asphyxia” and “Triage”
“Handling and Transportation of Injured persons” shall be added.
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