Executive Analysis of Fire Service Operations in Emergency Management R0306

This 10-day course is designed to enable students to better prepare their communities for large-scale, multiagency, all-hazard incidents. Students analyze emergency incidents and identify lessons learned and best practices to better prepare for future incidents. Students are introduced to emergency management and the workings of an Emergency Operations Center (EOC) as a framework for their analyses.

Some of the areas covered in the course are:

• Risk assessment.
• Incident documentation.
• Standards and legal mandates.
• Capability assessment.
• Damage assessment.
• Multiagency Coordination Systems including the EOC.

The subject matter is comprehensive--maximum use of the students’ time is required. Throughout the course, students are presented with a series of senior staff-level issues that require extensive analysis. The decisions made are applied to a mock community in order to evaluate the effectiveness of these decisions relative to the fire and rescue department’s operational readiness during major incidents such as floods, tornadoes, earthquakes and hurricanes.

The course is very intense and uses lecture, analysis of documented emergency incidents, after action reports, and student participation using “Ted Talks” as instructional media.