Fire and Emergency Services- Brightspire Virtual High School Elective Course

Emergency and fire-management services are essential infrastructure components of a community. Fire and Emergency Services is a semester long course that provides students with the basic structure of these organizations as well as the rules and guidelines that govern preemployment education requirements. The vehicles, equipment, and emergency-mitigations strategies that are commonly used in the emergency- and fire-management field are also explored. Students gain an understanding of the goals of an emergency- management service and how they are implemented and managed, including personnel, budget, and labor- management challenges in the organization. Various preparedness plans are discussed as students explore typical characteristics and frameworks of modern emergency- and fire-management organizations.