May 20, 2024  
Reynolds Community College Catalog 2024-2025 
    
Reynolds Community College Catalog 2024-2025
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FST 100 - Principles of Emergency Services

Credit Hours: 3
Provides an overview to fire protection; career opportunities in fire protection and related fields; philosophy and history of fire protection/service; fire loss analysis; organization and function of public and private fire protection services; fire departments as part of local government; laws and regulations affecting the fire service; fire service nomenclature; specific fire protection functions; basic fire chemistry and physics; introduction to fire protection
systems; and, introduction to fire strategy and tactics.

Lecture Hours: Lecture 3 hours per week.



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