This manual prepares firefighters and emergency responders to meet Marine Fire Fighter I and Marine Fire Fighter II training and certifications requirements of NFPA 1005, Standard for Professional Qualifications for Marine Fire Fighting for Land-Based Fire Fighters, 2007 edition. The second edition features the single-column layout with many new photos and examples.
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This textbook gives assistance to fire service personnel with the training, knowledge, technical information, and reference materials necessary for the safe and effective management of marine fire incidents. It describes the roles and responsibilities of the vessel's crew, emergency responders, and other agencies, including the implementation of a unified command structure within an incident management system. The book describes common situations encountered in vessel fire situations for vessels of all sizes. The second edition features single-column layout with many new photos and examples. IFSTA full featured eBooks meet the needs of the fire and emergency responder who is fully connected and immersed in the capability of mobile devices to communicate, socialize, and learn. IFSTA eBooks include features to enhance learning:.
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New entrants about to join a vessel crew, new and experienced officers performing inspections and training, or officers seeking higher certification will find Marine Fire Fighting (1st edition) to be an invaluable resource. The text addresses the shipboard fire fighting requirements of various maritime regulatory organizations such as U.S. Coast Guard, Canadian Coast Guard, and International Maritime Organization. In addition, it provides a resource to the mariner for use when attending courses required by regulations in fire fighting and safety, for self-study, and when instructing others during training and drills.
The content covers all aspects of fire prevention and suppression on board, whether a vessel is sailing in deep sea, coastal, or inland waters and whether a mariner is in the merchant service, naval service, or coast guard. Vessel personnel must provide their own fire, police, and ambulance services. IFSTA full featured eBooks meet the needs of the fire and emergency responder who is fully connected and immersed in the capability of mobile devices to communicate, socialize, and learn. IFSTA eBooks include features to enhance learning:. Downloadable for use while offline.
Fully searchable text. Accessible from up to 2 computers and 2 mobile devices. Bookmarked Table of Contents allows quick access to the content.
Print-fidelity ensures compatibility with the print version, and student support products. Notes, highlights, and bookmarks are stored in the cloud for access on multiple devices. Copy and print up to 20% of an IFSTA eBook. This study guide is designed to help the reader understand and remember the material presented in the Marine Fire Fighting (1st Edition) manual that it accompanies. The guide identifies important information and concepts from each chapter and provides questions to help the reader study and retain this information.
In addition, the study guide serves as an excellent resource for individuals preparing for certification or promotional examinations. The guide contains 1,389 questions broken down as follows: 672 multiple choice, 284 true/false, 261 identify and classify, and 172 matching.
This study guide is designed to help the reader understand and remember the material presented in Marine Fire Fighting (1st edition). The guide identifies important information and concepts from each chapter and provides questions to help the reader study and retain this information.
In addition, the study guide serves as an excellent resource for individuals preparing for certification or promotional examinations. This electronic version of the study guide allows the individual student to proceed through the questions in any order, find out immediately whether his or her answer is right or wrong and be referred to the source for the correct answer if necessary. Most questions are in the multiple-choice format that is utilized by civil service and certification examinations. The program also tracks the results of each session as a record of progress.
Each time a student goes through the program, the questions are rearranged randomly so that each session has a different look. Windows® compatible only.
Marine Firefighting Inc. Click ribbon for WTC memorial 'A smooth sea never made a skilled mariner.' MFI is training tug boat crews in LNG operations The Marine Firefighting Institute provides training, seminars, and consulting to meet the needs of your organization. We are available to work with Land Based Firefighters (professional or volunteer), with mariners and marina operators. Our training programs can be delivered at your training facility, marina, or we can create 'Vessel Specific' training and realistic fire/emergency scenarios on the vessels of your fleet. If you are a Fire Department, you don't even have to have a commercial port in your district to need this information. If you are only near a body of water that commercial ships and ferries use, you may be called in the event of an engine room fire or explosion.
What about a fire on a small pleasure craft or a marina? Small boat and marina fires can happen in the winter as well as in the summer! Our ' training looks at some problems encountered at a Ten Million dollar marina fire. If you have fishing boats in your district you will need our new training and our, ' training if you are on an inland river or waterway. For Departments with their own Fireboat see our new training program, '.
Click on color title to go there now. Fighting fires is what you do. However, the Land based firefighter will have to overcome the familiar attitude of, 'A fire's a fire. I've been putting them out for years and a ship fire is no different.'
The other extreme of, 'You're not getting me on one of those things', is equally unacceptable. The Marine environment is different than what you are used to. Whether it's a small boat fire in a marina or an oceangoing oil tanker, it will take some new training, changes of your structural firefighting tactics, and some changes in attitudes. This entire program of marine fire training is important if not crucial. If you're a mariner, this subject should be even MORE important to you. In most cases the Land Based firefighter can just walk off the vessel if a fire is not controlled. The mariner, at sea, does not have that option.
If the fire is not controlled then you will have to abandon ship. Usually not near land and possibly in bad weather.
Are your crews ready to put that fire out? In regards to legal repercussions for land based firefighters. Chapter 15-1.2 of NFPA standard # 1405 dealing with volunteer, career, as well as mutual aid fire departments who have been defendants in law suits involving losses at ship fires, states, ' An understanding of the dangers inherent in marine fire fighting should include an understanding of the consequences of the failure to provide a standard of training, planning, response, and action equivalent to that which a department provides on the land-based portions of its response area.' Quote from US Fire Administration report entitled Fireboats Then and Now 'A central principle in the fire and rescue service has been that firefighters and rescue personnel do as they practice when called to the scene of an emergency. Like land-based firefighting, shipboard and marine fire emergencies require unique skills to be mitigated effectively. These skills must be taught, evaluated, and refreshed regularly to ensure quality performance and firefighter safety.
Dependence on traditional land-based firefighting skills which have often been mastered by individuals selected or promoted to serve in marine units may be inefficient or dangerous in the non land-based environment.' For the mariner there are legal questions also. When the land based firefighters come aboard who is in charge? What can they do? What should you do? Who is in charge of your vessel? Marine Firefighting Inc.
Will tailor the time and content to match your requirements. We are available for Training, Seminars and Consulting. Choose from our more than twenty hours of training programs on Shipboard Firefighting, Fires and Drills (including our newest, '), our new training or any of our Ship Familiarization training programs. See our latest training program dealing with fires and emergencies aboard' on our inland rivers and waterways.
(Click on blue titles to go there now!) Training is available from a three hour mini-seminar up to a five-day Shipboard Firefighting training program. Or we can tailor one specifically designed for your area or vessels. Contact the Marine Firefighting Institute for all your Marine Firefighting training, seminar and consulting needs. Ongoing and refresher training sessions are also available.
If you would like to place a link to us on your website, please copy the above banner graphic and paste it to your website with the link addressed to www.marinefirefighting.com MFI is proud to have played a small part in the hurricane Katrina recovery To see where our seminars have been conducted in the pa st just No money for marine firefighting training? Federal grants through the Department of Homeland Security have been given out to Fire Department throughout the US for several years. If you haven't even submitted a request then you haven't done all you can to provide training to your Firefighters. And 'Marine Firefighting' training must be considered under the title of Homeland Security.
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