This module is part of FireLearn, an online Fire Fighter I & II course designed to enhance students’ learning experience by allowing them to experiment with key concepts and skills in the safety of a virtual environment.
This online training module brings content to life with interactive audio, video, Flash™ animation, photographs, illustrations, and case-based scenarios. It is designed to serve as either a distance learning solution to reduce classroom lecture hours or as a review tool to help students master more challenging subject matter presented to them in the classroom.
After completing this module, students will be able to:
- Define ventilation as it relates to fire suppression activities.
- List the effects of properly performed ventilation on fire and fire suppression activities.
- Describe how fire behavior principles affect ventilation.
- Describe how building construction features within a structure affect ventilation.
- List the principles, advantages, limitations, and effects of natural ventilation.
- List the principles, advantages, limitations, and effects of horizontal ventilation.
- List the principles, advantages, limitations, and effects of mechanical ventilation.
- List the principles, advantages, limitations, and effects of negative-pressure and positive-pressure ventilation.
- List the principles, advantages, limitations, and effects of hydraulic ventilation.
- List the principles, advantages, limitations, and effects of vertical ventilation.
- List safety precautions for ventilating roofs.
- List the basic indicators of roof collapse.
- Explain the role of ventilation in the prevention of backdraft and flashover.
- Break glass with a hand tool.
- Break a window with a ladder.
- Break windows on upper floors using the Halligan toss.
- Establish negative-pressure ventilation.
- Establish positive-pressure ventilation.
- Sound a roof.
- Operate a power saw.
- Perform a rectangular cut.
- Perform a louver cut.
- Perform a triangular cut.
- Perform a peak cut.
- Perform a trench cut.
