Course Description: Course leading to Firefighter I certification, including emergency medical care, fire behavior, firefighting equipment, fireground operations and rescue and safety procedures.
Fall 2025
Credit Hours: 5.00
Credit Hours: 5.00
Credit Hours: 5.00
Credit Hours: 5.00
Credit Hours: 5.00
Section Notes: Academy Offering. Students must also be enrolled in FS110, FS113 FS150. Class meets face-to-face September 5 to 19.Credit Hours: 5.00
Section Notes: Academy Offering. Students must also be enrolled in FS110, FS113 FS150. Class meets face-to-face October 4 to 17.Credit Hours: 5.00
Section Notes: Academy Offering. Students must also be enrolled in FS110, FS113 FS150. Class meets face-to-face November 1 to 14.Credit Hours: 5.00
Credit Hours: 5.00
Credit Hours: 5.00
Credit Hours: 5.00
Credit Hours: 5.00
Section Notes: Lyons High School Students Only.Meeting Times:
Days: MTWR
Times: 1:40 PM - 3:10 PM
Campus: Lyons
Building: Lyons High School
Room: LYHS01
Days: F
Times: 1:45 PM - 3:10 PM
Course Description: A follow-up course to FS110 Firefighter I, leading to a Firefighter II certification, including fire behavior, firefighting equipment, rescue and safety procedures, fire department operations and management and emergency medical care.
Fall 2025
Credit Hours: 4.00
Section Notes: Prerequisite of FS110 Firefighter I required for enrollment.Credit Hours: 4.00
Section Notes: Prerequisite of FS110 Firefighter I required for enrollment.Credit Hours: 4.00
Section Notes: Prerequisite of FS110 Firefighter I required for enrollment.Credit Hours: 4.00
Section Notes: Academy Offering. Students must also be enrolled in FS110, FS113 FS150. Class meets face-to-face September 5 to 19.Credit Hours: 4.00
Section Notes: Academy Offering. Students must also be enrolled in FS110, FS113 FS150. Class meets face-to-face October 4 to 17.Credit Hours: 4.00
Section Notes: Academy Offering. Students must also be enrolled in FS110, FS113 FS150. Class meets face-to-face November 1 to 14.Credit Hours: 4.00
Section Notes: Prerequisite of FS110 Firefighter I required for enrollment.
Course Description: Required training for all personnel prior to certification as a Wildland Firefighter Type 2 under the Wildland Qualifications System (NWCG 310-1); entry level course for all new firefighters and refresher course for veteran firefighters.
Fall 2025
Credit Hours: 3.00
Credit Hours: 3.00
Course Description: Incident Command System -features collectively identifying the unique quality of the ICS as an incident or event management system.
Fall 2025
Credit Hours: 1.00
Credit Hours: 1.00
Course Description: Use of portable pumps and related equipment needed to carry out field operations with peak efficiency and safety; correct water usage, basic hydraulics and equipment care.
Fall 2025
Credit Hours: 1.00
Credit Hours: 1.00
Course Description: Procedures for safe power saw operation in a wildland fire suppression setting and basic maintenance and field repairs of power saws.
Fall 2025
Credit Hours: 2.00
Credit Hours: 2.00
Course Description: Roles and responsibilities of a Firing Boss, Single Resource (FIRB), and duties of other personnel who may engage firing operations. Discuss and illustrate common firing devices and techniques.
Fall 2025
Credit Hours: 1.00
Credit Hours: 1.00
Course Description: Fire ground strategy and tactics including structure, priorities and language of the emergency scene.
Fall 2025
Credit Hours: 3.00
Credit Hours: 3.00
Credit Hours: 3.00
Credit Hours: 3.00
Course Description: Beginning observation and supervised tasks through work experience with a fire service agency.
Course Notes: FS110 Firefighter I, and Departmental Consent.
Fall 2025
Credit Hours: 3.00
Section Notes: Requires acceptance of student by host Fire Department, & Fire Science Program Coordinator approval. Successful student will pass an application & interview process, to be determined by the fire dept.
Course Description: Advanced observation and supervised tasks through work experience with a fire service agency.
Course Notes: FS136 Fire Science Practicum I, and Departmental Consent.
Fall 2025
Credit Hours: 3.00
Section Notes: Requires acceptance of student by host Fire Department, & Fire Science Program Coordinator approval. Successful student will pass an application & Interview process, to be determined by the fire dept.
Course Description: Study of the dynamic chemical process of fire and how to successfully extinguish it.
Fall 2025
Credit Hours: 3.00
Credit Hours: 3.00
Course Description: Preparation of fire science students for the physical requirements needed to pass fitness tests and the demands of a career in the fire service.
Fall 2025
Credit Hours: 1.00
Credit Hours: 1.00
Credit Hours: 1.00
Course Description: Knowledge and skills first-responding firefighters and EMS personnel need to safely respond to routine and non-routine emergencies that may involve hazardous materials. This includes knowledge and skills to understand what hazardous materials are and the risk associated with them in an incident; recognize the presence of hazardous materials in an emergency; understand the role of the emergency responder at the operations level and understand the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Current Emergency Response Guidebook.
Fall 2025
Credit Hours: 3.00
Credit Hours: 3.00
Credit Hours: 3.00
Credit Hours: 3.00
Section Notes: Academy Offering. Students must also be enrolled in FS110, FS113 FS150. Class meets face-to-face September 5 to 19.Credit Hours: 3.00
Section Notes: Academy Offering. Students must also be enrolled in FS110, FS113 FS150. Class meets face-to-face October 4 to 17.Credit Hours: 3.00
Section Notes: Academy Offering. Students must also be enrolled in FS110, FS113 FS150. Class meets face-to-face November 1 to 14.Credit Hours: 3.00
Credit Hours: 3.00
Credit Hours: 3.00
Credit Hours: 3.00
Section Notes: Lyons High School Students Only. Class meets Monday-Thursday 1:44 p.m. - 3:10 p.m. and Fridays 1:05 p.m. - 3:10 p.m.Credit Hours: 3.00
Course Description: Training in personal protective equipment, proper hoseline deployment and advancement, and any other specialized functions of the engine crew. In addition this course emphasizes correct hoseline and nozzle selection and tactics under real-time scenarios.
Fall 2025
Credit Hours: 1.00
Course Description: Surface ice rescue support functions at the 'operations' level as set forth in NFPA 1670 including preplanning, scene and victim assessment, shore-based rescue operations and IMS.
Fall 2025
Credit Hours: 1.50
Meeting Times:
Days: MT
Times: 9:00 AM - 6:00 PM
Campus: Main Campus
Building: Fire Science Building
Room: FS112
Days: W
Times: 9:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Campus: Main Campus
Building: Fire Science Building
Room: FS112
Course Description: Primary surface ice rescue functions at the 'technician' level as set forth in NFPA 1670 including ice rescue incident preplanning, ice rescue incident scene management, performance of ice rescue procedures utilizing equipment unique to ice rescue.
Fall 2025
Credit Hours: 1.00
Meeting Times:
Days: W
Times: 1:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Campus: Main Campus
Building: Fire Science Building
Room: FS112
Days: R
Times: 9:00 AM - 6:00 PM
Course Description: Rapid entry team training involves training in personal protective equipment, and any specialized rescue equipment needed to rescue emergency responders that are in jeopardy. In addition, this course emphasizes techniques involved in self-rescue.
Fall 2025
Credit Hours: 1.00
Course Description: Includes station life and operations related to specialized technical rescue situations, CISM, Incident Command, NFPA Standards, rules/regulations and medical treatment and assessment in technical rescue situations. Special safety concerns, and techniques applied in rescue operations, ropes, webbing, know craft, and equipment.
Fall 2025
Credit Hours: 1.00
Course Description: In accordance with FESHE, this course introduces the student to the organization and management of a fire and emergency services department and the relationship of private organizations governmental agencies and the fire service. Emphasis is placed on fire and emergency service, ethics, and leadership from the perspective of the company officer.
Fall 2025
Credit Hours: 3.00
Course Description: Operate within a fire department at a Fire Officer level.
Fall 2025
Credit Hours: 3.00