This course is designed to meet the learning objectives/performance objectives specified by NFPA® 1001.  Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to: demonstrate necessary skills in all aspects of fire department communications and incident reporting; create pre-incident plans and identify the various types of alarm and sprinkler systems;  assemble a team, choose attack techniques for various levels of a fire (e.g., attic, grade level, upper levels, or basement), evaluate and forecast a fire’s growth and development, select tools for forcible entry, incorporate search and rescue procedures and ventilation procedures in the completion of the attack team efforts, and determine developing hazardous building or fire conditions; demonstrate the firefighter’s role at a special rescue operation, the hazards associated with special rescue operations, types and uses for rescue tools, and rescue practices and goals; correctly identify and utilize methods to assess origin and cause; types of evidence; means to protect various types of evidence; understand the role and relationship of Fire Fighter II, criminal investigators, and insurance investigators in fire investigations; and the effects and problems associated with removing property or evidence from the scene.