Structural Collapse Operations - Level II (SCOF) - Spring PSTC

Course Goal: This course is designed to teach students the skills necessary to perform at the operational level at structural collapse incidents involving light frame and heavy wall structures. Description of Course: This course gives fire department and rescue personnel the knowledge and skills · necessary to operate effectively at incidents involving the collapse of light frame and heavy wall structures. Students are given extensive hands on instruction in structure assessment, emergency shoring and stabilization, breaching building materials and patient packaging and extrication. Prerequisites: Minimum age: 18 years old at start of course, and Confined Space Rescue (CSR) or Building Construction: Noncombustible & Fire Resistive (BCN) or Building Construction: Wood and Ordinary (BCP) AND Structural Collapse Operations I (SCOA). Student Equipment & Supplies: Pen/Pencil, Notebook; and PPE. Course is a PSFA CEU program. Total hours = 16, CEUs = 1.6