Vehicle/Machinery – Technician

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Vehicle/Machinery – Technician

This course provides knowledge and skills to meet the minimum job performance requirements as outlined in NFPA 1006, Standards for Technical Rescue Personnel Professional Qualifications.

The course trains Firefighters who respond to incidents such as: passenger and heavy vehicle incidents, equipment entrapments, impalements, and farm and industrial machinery entrapments. The course is designed to offer a combination of classroom and practical evolutions that allow the student to learn proper techniques to plan for a vehicle/machinery incident, establish fire protection, stabilize a vehicle or machine, isolate potential harmful energy sources, determine vehicle access and egress points, create access and egress openings for rescue, disentangle victims, remove a packaged victim to a designated safe area, and terminate a vehicle/machinery incident.  Course topics also include proper use of hand, electric, pneumatic, and heavy hydraulic tools.  All operations stress rescuer and victim safety.