New Free Emergency Incident Rehabilitation Program Available

The Firefighters Support Foundation’s (FSF) newest training program, Emergency Incident Rehabilitation, is now available free by download. This program consists of a 30-minute video presentation and a 90-slide PowerPoint presentation. Topics covered include:
  • What is Rehab?
  • Why do we Need Rehab?
  • The Functions of a Rehab Operation
  • When to Establish Rehab
  • Heat Factor/Wind Chill
  • Locating the Rehab Operation
  • Staffing the Rehab Operation
  • Osmolarity
  • And more
  • A complete set of review questions

The entire program is at the practical level for front-line responders. The PowerPoint and video portions of the program can be used by any agency or member either as-is, or as a basis from which to construct training modules or presentations of their own.

  • CLICK HERE to download the video (.zip) and the PowerPoint

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