1. WATER RESCUE

2. OBJECTIVES Provide participant with knowledge to act at an awareness level when encountering water emergencies. Provide participant with the skills needed to develop safe strategies to remove victims from a wide variety of water emergencies.

3. EFFECTS OF WATER ON THE BODY

4. Three types of drowning Dry Wet Near

5. HYPOTHERMIA

6. MAMILLIAN DIVE REFLEX

7. Rule number 1 Victim is not dead until they are warm and dead

8. VIDEO

9. SWIFT WATER

10. LOW HEAD DAMS

11. STRAINERS

12. EDDIES

13. WEATHER

14. STATUS OF WATER

15. BANKS AND SHORELINE

16. HYDROLOGY AND DYNAMICS OF MOVING WATER

17. SWIFT WATER SAFETY

18. Rule number two Never get within 15 feet of water without P.F.D.

19. VIDEO

20. ARLINGTON FIRE DEPARTMENT SOP’S

21. SIZE UP

22. WITNESSES

23. Rule number three Use the reach, throw, row, and go technique

24. CONCERNS FOR RESCUERS THAT END UP IN WATER

25. DUTIES OF FIRST ARRIVING COMPANY

26. TACTICS

27. THROW BAGS

28. ARC PATTERN

29. SWIMMING POOL

30. VEHICLE IN WATER

31. CANAL/CREEK

32. LAKE/POND

33. SWIFT WATER

34. S.C.B.A.’S

35. DANGER DANGER DANGER WILL ROBINSON

36. NEARLY HALF OF ALL DROWNINGS ARE WOULD BE RESCUERS

37. Rule number 4 Be Safe