CSU FIR2302 All Units Assignments Latest 2019 February Question # 00597893 Course Code : FIR2302 Subject: Education Due on: 02/07/2019 Posted On: 02/07/2019 06:24 AM Tutorials: 1 Rating: 4.9/5

FIR2302 Principles
of Fire and Emergency Services Safety and Survival

Unit I
Essay

Instructions

Select one of the 16 National Fallen Firefighters
Foundation’s (NFFF) Life Safety Initiatives that needs the most attention in
your department. The initiatives can be found at this link: https://www.everyonegoeshome.com/16-initiatives/

Write a one-page essay on why your department needs to focus
on this particular initiative and what you recommend changing. Identify the
culture and behaviors in your department related to safety that this initiative
will address. Describe what behavioral changes are expected to occur as part of
the initiative. Also, discuss how your selected initiative addresses personal
and organizational accountability. Be sure to include an introduction to your
essay. All content must follow APA guidelines, including all sources used,
which must be cited and referenced according to APA standards.

If you would like a refresher on writing essays, including
introductions and conclusions, consider watching the tutorial located here.

FIR2302 Principles
of Fire and Emergency Services Safety and Survival

Unit II
Case Study

Instructions

Consider this scenario: Last night, a male in his early 20s
was reported missing along a local body of water, a pond, river, lake, or
ocean, in your jurisdiction after a night out with friends at a local bar.
There is no eyewitness information about his disappearance, but a shoe
resembling what he was wearing was spotted this morning on the shore of the
waterway.

The city manager, police chief, local media, and the missing
man’s family are putting more and more pressure on fire/rescue to call in
divers to search for the missing man.

After reviewing this scenario, explain types of risk
management and mitigation and how they might impact decisions made concerning
major issues, potential solutions, and recommendations for the given situation.
Your analysis must be a minimum of two pages in length. A minimum of one
supporting source is required, which can include your textbook. Use APA style
when writing your responses. All sources used, including the textbook, must be
referenced; quoted or paraphrased material must have accompanying in-text
citations.

FIR2302 Principles
of Fire and Emergency Services Safety and Survival

Unit III
Homework Assignment

Instructions

In this assignment, you will write two letters using the letter
template available here.

On the first page of the template, write a letter about
empowerment addressed to a new rookie firefighter on your crew. Specifically
discuss the empowerment of when and how to speak up, how to be tactful in
speaking up to more seasoned firefighters or officers, and the importance of
all firefighters watching out for unsafe practices. The body of your letter
should be a minimum of 500 words.

On the second page of the template, write a letter to your
company officer or a chief officer if you are a company officer addressing a
situation where you or a peer could have been injured. In the fire service,
these situations are commonly referred to as close calls, but solid situational
awareness prevents a bad ending. You are required to explain the situation that
occurred and identify recommendations to prevent it from happening again (e.g.,
training, equipment changes, or staffing issues). The body of your letter
should be a minimum of 500 words.

FIR2302 Principles
of Fire and Emergency Services Safety and Survival

Unit IV
Case Study

Instructions

Consider this scenario. The ABC Fire Department has a health
and fitness program that is much more progressive than many other departments.
Annual physicals are required and paid for by the department, fitness trainers
are at the station at 8 a.m. Monday through Friday to work the on-duty crews
out for one hour, and a post-fire decontamination procedure is in place.

Of late, two different members seem to be slacking or
skipping the mandatory fitness hour. One member is a probationary firefighter
who is also a smoker and who claims his knee is hurting from a previous
condition. The other is an officer who is considered overweight and out of
shape who also claims his knee hurts when he has to climb the stairs of the
hose tower. There is more and more dissension among the ranks because some
members are not participating in the mandatory fitness program.

Recognize the importance of medical, fitness, performance,
and rehab standards. Using this scenario as a basis, address major issues,
potential solutions, and make recommendations in a minimum of two pages. Use
the CSU Online Library to locate a minimum of one supporting source. Use APA
style for formatting and citations.

FIR2302 Principles
of Fire and Emergency Services Safety and Survival

Unit V
Scholarly Activity

Instructions

Seek out and interview a fire officer about the following
topics:

The need for an emerging technology topic that falls in one
of the following categories: emergency response, the computer age, training
technology, fire extinguishment technology, or future trends. Examples for each
topic can be found in the textbook.

How the fire department contributes to the research that
organizations are doing benefit the safety and health of the fire service.

You should prepare a minimum of six questions related to the
topic you select.

After you conduct your interview, compile your research in
an essay that focuses on the need for technology. Make sure to include:

an introduction paragraph about the topics and interviewee,

a bulleted list of questions that were asked along with the
interviewee’s responses,

a summary of your thoughts about the interviewee’s
responses, and

a conclusion paragraph summarizing your research and what
you learned.

Write a minimum of two pages and maximum of three pages. Use
Times New Roman 12-point font and double space the entire document. No title
page or reference page is required.

FIR2302 Principles
of Fire and Emergency Services Safety and Survival

Unit VI
Project

Instructions

For this assignment, you will create an original, three-minute
grant request video.

In your three-minute video, you must introduce yourself and
discuss the following topics:

department background,

an equipment or training need,

how funding will benefit the department,

financial need, and

justification of the need for grant funding.

If you are not in the fire service, please use the same
directions but approach this assignment in the same manner but from a
comprehensive fire service approach. In
your three-minute video, you must introduce yourself and discuss the following
topics:

the fire service background applicable to your request,

an identified equipment or training need,

how the grant process should be utilized to fund the benefit
to the fire service,

the financial need, and

justification of the need for grant funding.

This video should provide a clear visual of you speaking.
Ensure you dress properly and speak naturally in a pleasant, social way. You
may use any recording equipment to record your video, including a cell phone.
Record your video in front of a local firehouse, fire apparatus, or other
relevant backdrop. If you record your video outside, ensure that there are no
distracting or overbearing sounds that hinder the ability to clearly hear you.

The following resources will aid you in developing your
video. Please review them prior to beginning the assignment.

Video Recording Guidelines

Recording and Uploading a Video

After you record the video, you will upload it to YouTube.
To submit your three-minute video, copy the link from YouTube into a Word
document, and submit it through Blackboard along with the transcript of your
video and a reference page containing any references used.

Remember to review the rubric before you submit the link of
your original video. If you do not have a way to record a video, you are allowed
to create an eight-slide PowerPoint presentation instead. For the presentation,
you must follow the same prompt as above but also include at least four images;
a title slide with your name, the date, and the title of your original project;
a reference slide; and voice-over narration for every slide other than the
reference slide. Ensure you follow APA guidelines. For assistance creating a
presentation using PowerPoint, please visit
http://columbiasouthern.adobeconnect.com/powerpointbestpractices/, or reach out
to the Writing Center for assistance.

FIR2302 Principles
of Fire and Emergency Services Safety and Survival

Unit VII
Homework Assignment

Instructions

Create a tri-fold brochure on behavioral health for your
department. You may use the brochure template found here, find a brochure
template through Microsoft Word, or create your own brochure from scratch. The
brochure should include the following:

department logo;

at least one apparatus photo;

contact names and numbers for your organization’s employee
assistance program (EAP), local behavioral health programs, county behavioral
health counseling, state behavioral health help line, and national suicide
prevention lifeline;

a brief description of what behavioral health services each
of the support agencies in the previous bullet provides;

an explanation of what policies are needed in your
organization to standardize response to emergency scenes; and

a description of the strategy of how to adopt each policy in
your department.

Ensure the members of your department will be made aware of
behavioral health resources after viewing your flyer.

FIR2302 Principles
of Fire and Emergency Services Safety and Survival

Unit VIII
Case Study

Instructions

In previous units, you were given a scenario and asked to
demonstrate your knowledge of the concepts in this course and your ability to
relate the concepts to practical situations. For your final assignment, you
will need to locate an actual fire and emergency services incident report.

Below are resources for locating fire and emergency services
reports:

NIOSH Fire Fighter Fatality Investigation and Prevention
Program

National Fire Incident Reporting System

In your response, please identify the following:

The scenario: You can paraphrase the scenario, but make sure
to use proper citations and references. Use the report as a reference and
include corresponding citations.

Major issues: Identify the major problems including their
causes in this section so you can identify appropriate solutions later.

Potential solutions: This section evaluates potential
solutions for the identified key problems. Often there is more than one
solution, so it is useful to evaluate each solution in terms of its advantages
and disadvantages. This will also assist in determining your recommendations.
Include consideration of the following:

the importance of safety in the design of apparatus or
personal protective equipment,

how proactive community risk reduction efforts could have
prevented the emergency response hazards,

how enforcement of codes (identify the codes) could have
prevented the incident, and

how risk management assessments could have been applied to
prevent the loss of life or injury.

Recommendations: This section should outline your
recommendations for how your department can avoid a similar situation based
upon the given solutions for each of the identified problems.

References: Include a reference page in APA style.

Your assignment should meet the following guidelines:

A title page and reference page are required.

Include a minimum of two pages of discussion and analysis
(title and references pages do not count toward this total).

Use APA formatting.

Use a total of two separate sources (including the report
you find). One source can be your textbook.