Fire Officer

The Academy is committed to providing training and education for fire officer development statewide. Courses offered include certification-based state developed and hand off courses from the National Fire Academy (NFA). We also offer additional training program through NFA direct delivery classes during which a national instructor delivers the program as well as through the annual S.C. NFA Weekend in Emmitsburg, MD. Check the website and Fire Portal for special offerings.

2100: Fire Officer I

• Prerequisite: Fire Instructor I and Firefighter II
• Recommended Prerequisite: 2146, 2147 or 2137 or equivalent I-200 training
• Contact Hours: 40
• This course, using a traditional learning approach, offers instructor presentations, class discussions, and interactive learning activities to prepare the student for the fire officer position within their department. Supervising personnel, assigning tasks, solving personnel performance problems, applying department policies, working with the local community, ensuring firefighter safety, fire and life safety inspections, and performing typical company officer administrative functions are addressed in the program. Out-of-class assignments will be necessary to complete the course.

2101: Fire Officer I - Blended Learning

• Prerequisite: Fire Instructor I and Firefighter II
• Recommended Prerequisite: 2146, 2147 or 2137 or I-200 equivalent
• Contact Hours: 32
• This course, using a practical blended approach to learning, offers instruction in a highly engaging format. Web-based presentations and assignments introduce the course content. These six online learning modules make use of video, interactive knowledge checks, and other types of multi-media to reinforce the content. Access to an online learning management provides a “home base” for students to retrieve reading assignments and supplemental activities, take practice tests, chat with other students, and receive feedback from the instructor. Live classroom sessions allow for face-to-face interaction with the instructor to help ensure mastery of the skills necessary for taking on a leadership role in today’s fire service. Supervising personnel, assigning tasks, solving personnel performance problems, applying department policies, working with the local community, ensuring firefighter safety, fire and life safety inspections, and performing typical company officer administrative functions are addressed in the program.

2102: Fire Officer II

• Prerequisite: Fire Officer I
• Contact Hours: 40
• The course is designed for the fire officer who is ready to assume more of a leadership role by moving into the middle management level of his/her department. Areas of instructions and discussion will include subjects related to human resource management, forms of governments, interagency and intergovernmental cooperation, analyses, evaluations and statistics, management, administrative responsibilities, fire and safety inspections, fire investigations, multi-unit emergency scene operations, post-incident analysis and critiques, as well as safety investigations and analyses. Students will apply these accepted skills to solving, analyzing, and critiquing situations. Extensive out-of-class assignments will be necessary to complete this course.

2103 Fire Officer 3

• Prerequisite: Fire Officer 2
• Contact Hours: 72
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