Section 141.110  Resources Required for Certification as an Unlimited Training Facility or Regional Training Center

In order to qualify for Unlimited Facility Certification, a training facility must possess, or have readily available for use, the following facilities, apparatus, equipment, reference material, established records, procedures and staff:

a)         Facilities

1)         Training tower, not less than two stories in height, for use as a training structure for ladder evolutions, rescue drills, hose advancement and rope work;

2)         Classroom with adequate environmental control and seating capacity for the anticipated trainee population (not adequate means obvious unsuitability, complaints received and other factors deemed relevant by the Office);

3)         Forcible entry and ventilation drill facilities, including a means of providing the trainee an opportunity to practice opening a variety of doors, windows, roofs, floors and partitions that are representative of the type and construction found in the community;

4)         A smoke and fire room or building suitable for containing, and equipped for simulating, fire atmospheres and conditions.  Any or all of these facilities may be combined into one structure; and

5)         Facilities for conducting live fire training (by permission and within restrictions of environmental control agencies and in accordance with NFPA 1403) and rescue that must include:

A)        Structural fires;

B)        Flammable liquid fires;

C)        LP and natural gas fires; and

D)        Automobile fires.

b)         Apparatus

Pumper apparatus, fully equipped as prescribed in NFPA 1901.

c)         Equipment

1)         All current types and classes of portable fire extinguishers;

2)         Forcible entry tools such as:  pry-axe, pick head axe, pike pole, wrecking bar, hatchet, wire and bolt cutters, claw and Kelly tool, crow bar, Halligan tool, manual and power saws and jacks;

3)         Ropes of assorted lengths, which can be used for rescue, rappeling and practicing knots and lashings;

4)         All equipment specified by NFPA 1901;

5)         Salvage and overhaul equipment, including covers, carry-alls, cleaning and patching equipment and sprinkler kits;

6)         Self-contained breathing equipment in sufficient numbers to enable each student to wear the equipment for at least the life of one canister or breathing air tank during his/her training;

7)         Standard first-aid supplies for the teaching of the Standard American Red Cross first aid course or its equivalent;

8)         Electronic audio, video and projection equipment;

9)         Standard classroom equipment:  chalk board, speaker's rostrum;

10)         Protective clothing, in accordance with NFPA 1971 (one full set for each student), including the structural helmet with a face shield. (Students should provide their own clothing while training at a facility other than their duty station);

11)         Any equipment needed to complete the subject objectives established by the Office; and

12)         Other instructional aids as may be needed, such as cutaways of equipment, models, flip charts.