Transfers ToCSUDescriptionFire Strategy and Tactics examines how a fire department responds to structure fires and other emergency incidents from the incident commander's viewpoint. The class examines strategies and tactics from the incident commander’s viewpoint. Students are challenged with decision-making through a variety of occupancies as they utilize basic firefighting procedures and considerations. Principles of fire control, through utilization of manpower, equipment, extinguishing agents, and fire command and control procedures will be discussed and demonstrated. Using information on building construction types in fire control, pre-fire planning and the organized approach to decision making on the fire ground will be applied. The target audience for this course is second year FST students or working fire professionals who wish to promote to a supervisory role.