Emergency Response to Propane Incidents (Live Fire)

Classroom instruction and live-fire practical training designed to help responders assess incidents, gain access to control systems, and apply proven tactics in high pressure gas fire scenarios.

avaibility
within 100 miles of
Shirley, Indiana

Length
6 hours

Cost
$3,500
plus travel

Travel costs quoted based on course location.

About this Course

The “Emergency Response to Propane Incidents – Live Fire” course consists of 3 hours of classroom using on screen presentations, display props and product demonstrations. The classroom portion is designed to provide the information needed to respond to and make an initial determinations if the incident is manageable or not (i.e. remain on site or evacuation).

*Note: All students are required to sign a Student Waiver.

Course Overview

Lecture topics include: product properties, container types, flow control devices, flaring, emergency controls, relief valve issues, hydrostatic ruptures, over-pressurization problems & solutions.

Live fire practical training

The second half of the course builds on the first providing hands on experience using proven tactics to gain access to control systems. The practical experiences learned holding back a million BTU’s cannot be learned in the classroom. Hand line management in and out, water streams, nozzle usage, attack and/or defensive postures, team operations, communicating in high noise environments are all required to make an attack on a high-pressure gas fire. The BTU’s created are unlike any structural materials can produce

Tactical Options covered

The FULL Course with our burn props is ONLY available within 100 miles of Shirley Indiana. We can provide the classroom and practical’s further out using burn props that are available locally.