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This unit uses our most common resource, ‘The Fundamentals of Fire Fighting Skills’ (FFS), but also finally dives more heavily into ‘Fire Service Pump Operator: Principles and Practice’ (PO). For review the ‘Barron’s: Firefighter Exams’ has many tests. These books and other helpful resources are discussed in more detail on the Orientation Page, while the […]

This unit uses our most common resource, ‘The Fundamentals of Fire Fighting Skills’ (FFS), as well as other more generic sources such as the knot section of a Boy Scout book or Youtube. The ‘Barron’s: Firefighter Exams’ book didn’t really have a any specific sections or tests related to ropes and knots, however, we took […]

This unit uses our most common resource, ‘The Fundamentals of Fire Fighting Skills’ (FFS), and we finally crack open ‘Fire Service Pump Operator Principles and Practice’ (PO) for some examples and a little bit of discussion. There is also one useful section in ‘Barron’s: Firefighter Exams.’ (BARRONS) These books and other helpful resources are discussed in […]

This unit uses our most common resource, ‘The Fundamentals of Fire Fighting Skills’ (FFS), for most of the study and ‘Barron’s: Firefighter Exams’ book for additional learning and review. These books and other helpful resources are discussed in more detail on the Orientation Page, while the Fire Fighting Skills Homepage also outlines (with links as […]

This unit only uses one reading resource, The “Fundamentals of Fire Fighting Skills” (third edition). This book and other helpful resources are discussed in more detail on the Orientation Page, while the Fire Fighting Skills Homepage also outlines (with links as we go along) each of the units we will cover if you want more […]

We recently finished the Firefighting Unit on Tools in our homeschooling and got a personal invitation for Nathan to visit Anchorage Fire Department’s Station 12 from an employee at C&T Fire; the place we went to learn more about fire extinguishers. Station 12 happens to be the location for all of the small tool repair […]

This unit took a little while and there was quite a bit of reading, but it was jam packed with information and was quite fun! For this unit we only used one reading resource, The Fundamentals of Fire Fighting Skills (third edition). This book and other helpful resources are discussed in more detail on the […]

Six year old Nathan has had it in mind to become a firefighter for several years now, so I am going to run with it! As an Alaskan homeschooling family we have the ability to create our own learning plans and this year I decided to incorporate his dreams into his learning. I felt that […]

After Mr. Nathan was issued the rest of his gear he quickly got to work training and learning. There are a lot of parts to becoming a firefighter/EMT and Fireman Duley as been working very hard. He has gotten better at donning and doffing his gear quickly, and how to use webbing to rescue a […]

The goals of this unit are pretty straight forward. First it’s to better understand exactly what happens when a person calls 911, and how it leads to dispatching particular units and apparatus. Next it involves the practice of using walkie-talkies (an interesting skill to share the modern child!), and finally the inclusion of map skills […]