Training

Here's a summary of the items ISO considers when reviewing a community’s training for firefighters.

• Facilities and aids
• Drill tower
• Fire building (including smoke room)
• Combustible-liquid pit
  (In areas where federal, state, or local officials prohibit the use of combustible-liquid pits, credit may be available for a video depicting extinguishment of flammable-liquid fires. )
• Library and training manuals
• Slide or overhead projectors
• Movie projector or VCR
• Pump cutaway
• Hydrant cutaway
• Use
  • Half-day (3-hour) drills, 8 per year
  • Half-day (3-hour) multiple-company drills, 4 per year
  • Night drills (3-hour), 2 per year
    Note: ISO may credit a single-company drill under the first and last of these items; ISO may credit multiple-company drills under all three.
• Company training
  Company training at fire stations, 20 hours per member per month
• Classes for officers
  2 days (6 hours each) per year for all officers
• Driver and operator training
  4 half-day (3-hour) sessions per year
• New-driver and operator training
  Classes for new drivers and operators, 40 hours
• Training on radioactivity or hazardous materials
  1 half-day (3-hour) session per member per year
• Recruit training
  240 hours per recruit
• Prefire planning inspections
  The community should run a prefire planning inspection of each commercial, industrial, institutional, and other similar structure twice a year for maximum credit in the FSRS. Records of the inspections should include complete and up-to-date notes and sketches.
• Records
  If the community’s records are incomplete, ISO will reduce the total points credited for training by up to 20 points each for Items A through H.

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