Fire Officer Leadership and Management

 

The target audience for our Fire Officer Leadership and Management Degree is working Firefighters who hold Firefighter 1 and Firefighter 2 certifications and are looking to promote to the rank of

Lieutenant/Captain of Fire or above. There are many options to completing this degree which may include: Credit by prior learning, credit by work experience, and credit by examination, in addition to attending DE or Face-to-Face classes. Here is a brief overview of our AS-FOLM degree: A Fire Officer is a mid-level supervisor who performs both supervisory and first-line managerial functions who has met all the job performance and certification requirements of Fire Officer I as defined in NFPA 1021, Standard for Fire Officer Professional Qualifications. Additionally, this individual has satisfied all the requirements in the Company Officer Certification Track with State Fire Training. Graduates of LPC FOLM AS Degree should be able to perform the following duties germane to the profession: 1. Evaluate member job performance; 2. Prepare a project or divisional budget, news releases, and/or new policy or changes in existing policies; 3. Conduct inspections to identify hazards and address violations, and conduct fire investigations to determine the origin and preliminary causes; 4. Supervise multi-unit emergency operations, deploy assigned resources, and develop and conduct post-incident analysis; 5. Review injury, accident, and health exposure reports, identify unsafe work environments or behaviors and take approved action to prevent their re-occurrence.

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The Las Positas College AS in Fire Officer Leadership and Management is a professional development program that trains existing fire service supervisors, Company Officers and above, to navigate the administrative, technical, and operational demands of fire departments. This DE/Hybrid specialized management-level program is designed to prepare the next generation of fire services leaders to progress on their career pathway into supervisory, management, and administrative positions within the sector. Courses are based on the Company Officer Certification track which utilizes NFPA 1021 Standard for Fire Officer Professional Qualifications (2014) and NFPA 1051 Standard for Wildland Fire Fighter Professional Qualifications (2016) to provide the qualifications for State Fire Training’s Company Officer certification. These qualifications are documented in the Company Officer Certification Training Standards (CTS).

Required Core: 

BUSN 87    Organizational Management and Leadership (3 Units)

FST 8          Fire Strategy and Tactics (3 Units)

FST 20        CO 2A Human Resource Management for Company Officers (2.5 Units)

FST 21        CO 2B General Administrative Functions for Company Officers (1.5 Units)

FST 22        CO 2C Fire Inspections and Investigation for Company Officers (2.5 Units)

FST 23        CO 2D All - Risk Command Operations for Company Officers (2.5 Units)

FST 24        CO 2E Wildland Incident Operations for Company Officers (2.5 Units)

FST 25        Instructor 1 (2.5 Units)

Total Required Core: 20 units

General Education and Electives: 40 units

Program-Based GE Requirement:  PHIL 2 Ethics (3 Units)

Total Units in the Degree: 60

 

Course	Title	Units	Year/Semester (Y1 or S1)

Advisory Approved.

Colleges contacted, supportive: • Mike Grillo Fire Technology Director LMC • Demmond Simmons Meritt College Fire Tech Director • Ken Sebastiani Santa Rosa College Public Safety Associate Dean CSU contacted, supportive: • Dean Henson, Professor Presentation to the Alameda County Operations Chiefs ( Fire Agencies in Alameda County) All are supportive • Departments represented : Alameda County , Oakland FD , Berkeley FD , Fremont FD , Camp Parks FD , East Bay Regional FD , Alameda City, LPFD , CAL Fire Santa Clara Unit, Emeryville FD Other contacted, waiting to hear from: • Christie Baird Fire Technology Director San Mateo College • Jeff Seaton Director Fire and EMS Programs South Bay Public Safety Training Consortium