This course is designed to prepare firefighters for operating fire department pumping apparatus. Lessons include theoretical knowledge of hydraulic principles, pump-theory, mathematical calculations, water supply requirements, legal aspects of emergency vehicle operation, fire-ground pumping evolutions, drafting, relays, hand-line and master stream operations. This course satisfies the 80 hours of basic certification training for Apparatus and Pump Operators seeking certification by the Florida Bureau of Fire Standards and Training.
Terms Typically Offered:Fall, Spring
Hours:80.00
Textbook information will be available online for each term's courses 45 days prior to the first day of classes
for the term.
The courses in this catalog are identified by prefixes and numbers that were assigned by Florida's Statewide
Course Numbering System, a system used by all public postsecondary institutions in Florida and 32 non-public
institutions. Seminole State controls the description, credit and content of its own courses.
