Urban Search and Rescue Rescuer Course

Scope: Training in this course includes all specific competencies outlined in NFPA 1006, Standard for Technical Rescuer Professional Qualifications at the Awareness, Operations, and Technician Level in Rope, Confined Space, Trench, Structural Collapse, Common Passenger Vehicle, Heavy Vehicle and Machinery Rescue.

Students will be given a written/Blackboard test for each level of certification; Awareness, Operations, and Technician to test their knowledge of each rescue.

Students will conduct hands on testing for each level of certification: Awareness, Operations, and Technician to test their skills on the application of each rescue.

Students will conduct the following Rescues:

1.      Rope Rescue: packaging patients, search techniques, knots, rigging principles, rappels, raising and lowering victims 60 feet in the air, and conducting a high line rescue. 100 hours. 

2.     Confined Space Rescue: putting on Supplied Air Respirators (SAR/SCBA) and being lowered into a confined space to package and remove a victim. 40 hours. 

3.     Trench Rescue: shoring up a trench walls to remove a victim that is trapped 8 feet below ground. Making an A-Frame out of rescue ladders to use as a high point anchor. 40 hours.  

4.     Structural Collapse: breaching and breaking concrete, torch cutting operations, shoring operations and lifting and moving two tons of concrete with hand tools. 100 hours. 

5.     Common Passenger Vehicle Rescue: using cutters and spreaders (Jaws-of-Life) to remove doors and roofs, stabilizing vehicles and buses to prevent any movement, and packing patients trapped inside and under vehicles.30 hours. 

6.     Heavy Vehicle Rescue: using extrication equipment and various stabilization tools to cut, lift, and stabilize heavy duty highway, off-road, construction, and mass transit vehicle to prevent movement and package patients trapped inside and under vehicles. 30 hours. 

7.     Machinery Rescue: Disentangle victims caught in fans, hoppers, lathes, farm machinery. The stabilization of small and large machinery and neutralize energy sources using lock-out-tag-out procedures. 20 hours.

Students who successfully complete this training will receive a 21 DOD certifications from International Fire Service Accreditation Congress (IFSAC) and the National Professional Qualifications Board (Pro-Board) and entered into the DOD Fire and Emergency Services Certification Program System.

Students will also receive a Basic Life Support (BLS) certification, DA Certification, and a Service School Academic Evaluation Report, DA Form 1059.