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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 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 […]

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 […]

While on vacation to Nice, CA we took the opportunity to stop in at a few fire stations for Mr. Nathan to look around. Firemen Derek and Randy were very kind to spend a lot of time with us at North Shore FPD’s Station 85. He checked out several different vehicles and even got to […]

While on vacation to Nice, we visited other towns around Clear Lake, and stopped into Lakeport’s Firestation 50. Fireman Lund was very kind to show Mr. Nathan all around. He opened all kinds of compartments, asked a ton of questions, and got into every vehicle. One particularly special thing about this fire station is their […]

Nathan has been working very hard to bring his Donning time down from 4 and half minutes to just 1 minute 20. He wanted to share it on Nathan’s Corner, along with a few other short videos and photos. So enjoy!