Driver Operator

1205: Emergency Vehicle Response Awareness

• Prerequisite: None
• Contact Hours: 4
• This course provides the necessary knowledge to safely operate emergency response vehicles to an emergency scene. This includes department staff, support, and privately owned vehicles. Topics of interest include: line of duty deaths, injury statistics related to emergency response, safety and risk control, and S.C. laws and regulations governing vehicles, and drivers of emergency response vehicles. Included in the student manual is a VFIS personal vehicle safety checklist.

1410: Emergency Vehicle Response Awareness

• Prerequisite: None
• Online format through scfaonlinetraining.org
• This free Open Enrollment Academy class does not require registration. A certificate is supplied via email.
• Transcript credit is available.
• This online course provides the necessary knowledge to safely operate emergency response vehicles to an emergency scene. This includes department staff, support, and privately owned vehicles. Topics of interest include: line of duty deaths, injury statistics related to emergency response, safety and risk control, and S.C. laws and regulations governing vehicles, and drivers of emergency response vehicles. Included in the student manual is a VFIS personal vehicle safety checklist.

1210: Emergency Vehicle Driver Training

• Prerequisite: None
• Contact Hours: 40
• This course addresses how South Carolina state laws affect emergency vehicle operations, vehicle inspections, vehicle maintenance, and the physical limitations and abilities of fire apparatus. This includes vehicle operations and driving in tight tolerance driving maneuvers.

1220: Pump Operations

• Prerequisite: 1210
• Contact Hours: 40
• This course is designed for training new pump operators in the effective use and placement of apparatus at emergency scenes and the operation of the apparatus pumps. Subjects include water and water supply, hose and nozzle flow rates, fire ground and theoretical hydraulic calculations, fire pump theory, and operating apparatus pumps at pressurized, relay pumping, and static water sources. Students will participate in classroom and practical skill activities consisting of pump orientation and pump operations, to include single and multiple hose line evolutions at pressurized and static water sources. Students are encouraged to bring a calculator.

1221: Pump Operations II (Mobile Water Supply)

• Prerequisite: 1220
• Contact Hours: 16
• This course addresses the movement of water in a suburban/rural environment using water supplies that may be available to the driver operator such as water points, draft sites, rivers, creeks and swimming pools. Subjects include the components of a water shuttle operation, to include dump and fill site operations. The class will perform multiple water shuttle operations.

1250: Aerial Operations

• Prerequisite: 1210
• Contact Hours: 24
• This course is designed for specific departments with aerial apparatus. Through class and practical activities, students are prepared for enhanced aerial device operation. The course includes aerial types and construction, apparatus positioning and strategies, and tactics of operation. Maintenance and testing of aerials will also be covered.