FirefightersSearch and rescue: Rescue a firefighter whose respiratory protection is working (house, day)
Rescue a firefighter whose respiratory protection is working. The building is a house. It happens during the day. As one of a two-person search and rescue team, with your vision obscured, protective gear, a flashlight, forcible entry tools, hose lines and ladders when needed, you search a structure: every assigned area is searched, every victim is found and taken out, the team stays together and nobody's safety is put at risk. It is station 4-8 of Ohio's Firefighter I practical exam (NFPA 1001 4.3.9).
Free to startThis scenario
- Rescue a firefighter whose respiratory protection is working.
- The building is a house.
- It happens during the day.
The steps
- Check the door for heat before going in; assess whether the areas are tenable, check them for threats and recognize a safe haven.
- Place the ladders correctly, when used.
- Communicate and work as a team member with your vision obscured.
- Carry out one of the rescues in the scenarios above.
- Search every assigned area well.
- Find and remove every victim.
- Keep the team together.
- Do not put the team members' safety at risk, including their respiratory protection.
- No unsafe act during the evaluation.
To pass
- All 8 steps without placing a ladder, or all 9 when placing one.
- You work with a partner, and each one can fail alone for: losing situational awareness, wrong body posture, not identifying the building openings and features, not helping to remove the victim, or losing physical and verbal contact with the partner.
- The area has several rooms, about 300 to 400 square feet (28 to 37 m²); the rescue dummy weighs at least 110 lb (50 kg); a ladder rescue is not required.
- Only as an emergency, you may take the backpack partly or fully off to get through a restricted passage, without removing the face piece or compromising the air supply.
- The evaluator can stop the station at any time for an unsafe act.
Official source
Firefighter I Practical Examination Skill Sheets (EMS 5919)
Ohio publishes every Firefighter I skill sheet free: the steps, the critical points and the minimum to pass.
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