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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 […]

Breathing. One of the most important things to keeping us alive! The basic goals of this unit: Learn the parts of the respiratory system The nose and sinuses The Trachea and Vocal Cords The Lungs; Bronchi, Bronchioles, Alveoli, and Capillaries Cilia Rib Cage and Diaphragm Learn how the Respiratory System works with the Circulatory System […]

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 […]

We’ve been continuing on our journey with Nathan’s fire fighting and first responder skill training, and, after learning about how the circulatory and respiratory systems work, we jumped into CPR training. We, of course, have been using our rescue cadaver, Cristof, and sometimes we pretend on our friends, but in reality neither is anywhere close […]

When I originally planned out this curriculum, I was going to continue from the Bone, Muscle, and Skin units into the nervous system, but the opportunity for Nathan to sit-in on a very blood related tourniquet course made me rearrange the plans. Interestingly enough it really does work very well coming after all of 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 […]

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 […]