Recent ProfessorsNot yet assignedRecent SemestersNo scheduled sections on recordClass SizeNot publishedCredits1PrerequisiteFIRE 1500 and 1760 Transfers ToNot transferableDescriptionThis course provides rescue professionals with the level of knowledge to perform urban search and rescues. Topics include team organization, rescue, and environmental considerations, use of ropes, knots rigging and pulley systems, descending, rappelling, and belaying tools and techniques, subsurface rescue techniques, use of cribbing, wedges, cutting/prying and hydraulic tools, use of fire service ladders in specialized rescue situations, and day and night simulated rescue exercises. Pass/No Pass only. 