DPSST's 2025 Firefighter I Academy

The 2025 Firefighter I Academy offered by DPSST will combine online distance education (IFSTA Resource One) with hands-on demonstrations to give students the knowledge, skills, and abilities to become firefighters. The course will meet the standards of NFPA 1001 and will use the IFSTA Essential 8th edition and IFSTA Hazardous Materials for First Responders, 6th Edition curriculums. Throughout the course, students are expected to retain and apply mental and physical knowledge on the training ground. This is an entry-level class that will teach the basic concepts of firefighting. Students must be affiliated with an Oregon Fire Service Agency to be enrolled in the DPSST 2025 Firefighter I Academy. You must register and set up an account with IFSTA Resource One prior to registering for this academy. You must submit your IFSTA Resource One registered name and email address during your registration for this academy.

Upon passing DPSST's 2025 Firefighter I Academy students will have achieved: NIMS ICS 100, 200, 700 & 800, NWCG S-130, S-190 and L-180 classes with taskbook started, NFPA Firefighter I competencies, Traffic Incident Management class and Hazmat Awareness and Operations competencies.

Academy limited to 24 students.

Students must be at least 18 years of age and affiliated with an Oregon fire service agency.

Course Information and Expectations

Students are expected to complete all assigned online material, including PowerPoint presentations, chapter quizzes prior to the start of each chapter listed below. There is also a practice test available for each chapter that we recommend as it will help you prepare for the in-person timed final chapter test. On the day of class, instructors will provide a short review and answer any questions students may have on the topic being covered that day. Once the review is completed, students will have to take a closed-book chapter test on material they have already studied. The practice chapter tests in IFSTA Resource 1 will be similar to the in-person timed final chapter tests. The in-person timed final chapter test will be taken in the DPSST computer lab and will be timed. Students are required to pass the chapter tests with 75% or higher.

The DPSST 2025 Firefighter I Academy has a set schedule, and 100% attendance is required. If a student can’t attend all the dates listed below they should not register as no make-up dates are scheduled. The schedule was created to avoid all the major holidays. If a student is unable to make a day of the academy for an unforeseen circumstance (i.e., death in the family, deathly ill dependent). In that case, their responsibility is to make the missed training their department. Make-up days will only be accepted if the student can complete all skill sheets for that required day with a DPSST-accredited department and instructor before the final scenario day on July 27, 2025.

When arriving at DPSST Campus. Pull up to main entrance gate, enter pin code if you have an entrance code or push the call button and advise the attendant that you are here for Fire Program Skid Truck training located at the Fire Building 11.

Proceed to Fire Building. Follow red line on map. Park in a parking spot from roadway near the Fire Building, but not in front of roll up doors or in Fire Building Parking Lot areas.

Fire Building is gray in color with a number 11 located on the North side of the building.

DPSST 2025 Firefighter I Course Schedule: (This schedule could change)

All scheduled days are tentatively set to run from 08:00hrs-17:00hrs. (Please note the time may vary)

Weekend #1

04/05/25 Chapter 1, 2, 3, and 6, review and written test

04/06/25 ODOT TIMS Class (no written test), Chapter 2, 3, and 6 hands-on and skill sheets.

Weekend #2

04/12/25 Chapters 4, 5, and 7, with and written test. Chapters 4, 5, 6 hands-on and skill sheets.

04/13/25 Chapter 8, review and written test, Chapter 8 hands-on and skill sheets.

Weekend #3

05/03/25 Chapter 9, review and written test, Chapter 9 hands-on and skill sheets.

05/04/25 Chapter 10, review and written test, Chapter 10 hands-on and skill sheets.

Weekend #4

05/17/25 Chapter 11, review and written test, Chapter 11 hands-on and skill sheets.

05/18/25 Chapter 12, review and written test, Chapter 12 hands-on and skill sheets.

Weekend #5

05/31/25 Chapter 13, review and written test, Chapter 13 hands-on and skill sheets.

06/01/25 Chapter 13 hands-on and skill sheets continued.

Weekend #6

06/21/25 Chapter 13 hands-on with water mapping, Chapter 14 review and written test.

06/22/25 Chapter 14 hands-on and skill sheets.

Weekend #7

06/28/25 Hands-on Wildland training

06/29/25 Hazmat Awareness and Ops, with review and written test.

Weekend #8

07/14/25 Chapter 15 review and written test, Chapter 15 hands-on and skill sheets.

07/15/25 Chapter 16 review and written test, Chapter 16 hands-on and skill sheets.

Weekend #9

07/26/25 Putting it all together, Fire Ground scenarios.

07/27/25 IFSTA Practical Skill Sheets testing and Graduation.

1. Required Textbook or Electronic Manual: (Provided by DPSST)

Required text: IFSTA 8th Edition and IFSTA Hazardous Materials for First Responders, 6th Edition. (Provided by DPSST)

2.Online Log-In Instructions:

DPSST 2025 Firefighter I Academy

Students upon registration and DPSST approval will be entered into IFSTA Essentials 8th edition DPSST 2025 Firefighter I Academy class, IFSTA Hazardous Materials for First Responders, 6th Edition Hazmat Awareness class and IFSTA Hazardous Materials for First Responders, 6th Edition Hazmat Operations class.

To access your course please complete the following steps:

1) Login to your IFSTA Resource One account entered at registration.

2) Click on “My Courses” and locate courses: IFSTA Essentials 8th edition DPSST Firefighter I 2025 Academy class, IFSTA Hazardous Materials for First Responders, 6th Edition Hazmat Awareness class and IFSTA Hazardous Materials for First Responders, 6th Edition Hazmat Operations class.

3) Begin completing each section of the courses/classes.

3. Required Equipment: Students must provide their NFPA and OSHA compliant personal protective clothing and equipment to class. Those items are as follows:

· Structural firefighting protective helmet.

· Structural firefighting protective gloves.

· Structural firefighting protective boots (leather or rubber).

· Structural firefighting protective hood.

· Structural firefighting protective coat. (Turnout Coat)

· Structural firefighting turnout trousers with suspenders. (Turnout Pants)

· Safety glasses or goggles (ANSI Standard Z87.1 compliant)

· Hearing Protection (DPSST has orange soft ear plugs)

· Self-Contained Breathing Apparatus (SCBA)

· SCBA Air Bottles Quantity-2 45 minute bottles

· SCBA Facepiece Mask that they have fit-tested to wear

· Personal Alert Safety System (PASS)

· Water or sports drink for hydration

· (Wildland PPE needed on Wildland Hands-On Day only) Wildland Personal Protective Equipment to include: Helmet, Goggles, Face/Neck Shroud, Long Sleeve Shirt, Jacket, Trousers, Footwear, Gloves, Fire Shelter and Backpack or Web Gear.

4. SCBA Facepiece Mask Fit Compliance:

During the DPSST 2025 Firefighter I Academy Training, candidates may be exposed to immediately dangerous to life and health (IDLH) atmospheres. As a result, ALL candidates MUST provide SCBA facepiece fit testing documentation in compliance with 29 CFR 1910.134. The fit test MUST have been completed sometime during the 12 months before starting the DPSST Firefighter I Academy. Candidates WILL NOT be permitted to participate in training without documentation of a fit test.

Candidates with beards, facial hair, or unshaven in the area of the SCBA facepiece seal WILL NOT be permitted to participate in any portion of the DPSST 2025 Firefighter I Academy Training.

5. Medical and Physical Expectations:

This DPSST 2025 Firefighter I Academy course is 90% hands-on, and students must ensure they are physically fit to perform all the skills listed in IFSTA 8th Edition Firefighter I manual.

Sections within the program will require moving, lifting, and manipulating fire hoses, ladders, and equipment that can weigh 50 pounds or more while wearing 60 pounds of protective gear. An appropriate level of fitness is required to complete these tasks.

Students will need to be able to lift and push items and equipment that can vary in weight (50-180 lbs. or more).

Students need to be physically capable of climbing to various heights, balancing, stooping, kneeling, crouching, crawling, and reaching while performing skills.

Students must be comfortable working in confined and low/nonexistent visibility environments.

6. Testing:

To test students’ knowledge base and understanding of the material, students will take a timed final chapter test in IFSTA Resource 1. Students will be required to pass each timed final chapter test with 75% or higher. Students who score less than 75% can retest that timed final chapter test the following week. Students who fail to score 75% or higher on the second attempt timed final chapter test will not be allowed to continue with the academy.

There will be no final test for this course. Your final grade will be an accumulation of the timed final chapter tests. There will be a final practical skills test based on a selection of Task Performance Evaluation’s skills sheets. Those skill sheets are available for review at https://www.oregon.gov/dpsst/FirePrograms/FireForms/FFI_%20Skill_Sheets.pdf. Skill sheets listed on the schedule will be ones in IFSTA Resource 1.

Each Task Performance Evaluation examination is on a pass/fail basis. The student is allowed two (2) attempts to pass each skill sheet during the first skills examination. If a student fails the skill, they will immediately be given a second attempt to pass the skill sheet. If the second attempt fails, the student is considered to fail the skill sheet. If a student fails, more than two skill sheets, the student will have failed the entire skill examination. If a student fails the entire skills examination, the student must retest on a new set of skill sheets consisting of a minimum of five (5) randomly selected skill sheets at a later date.

If you have questions about this course please contact Aaron or Josh.

Instructor: Aaron Bielemeier

Phone Number: 503-302-5523 (text preferred)

Email: [email protected]

Instructor: Joshua Bowerman

Phone Number: 503-551-1868 (text preferred)

Email: [email protected]

For question about registration, please contact Madison.

Madison Hockett

Phone Number: 971-433-7899

Email: [email protected]

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