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Peach County Fire Department

Fire Dynamics

Read the smoke. Read the room. Put water on it. A four-hour interactive course built from FSRI research, NIOSH investigations, and The Art of Reading Smoke.

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Peach County Fire Department · 4 hours

Fire Dynamics

Ten modules. Decision drills with real scenes. Official FSRI videos. NIOSH case studies. Work them in order — your answers and time are saved as you go.

Training, not a substitute for the fire. This course teaches evidence-based fire dynamics so you make better decisions. It does not replace live-fire training, your department SOGs, or a charged line. When FSRI, NIOSH, or NFPA 1700 and this page ever disagree, follow the research and your SOGs.
Read smoke

VVDC — volume, velocity, density, color — tied to a decision, not trivia.

Read the room

Layering, rollover, flashover, backdraft, flow path, door control.

Put water on it

Transitional, interior, gas cooling, and the right stream for the fire in front of you.

Sources this course is built on

UL Fire Safety Research Institute (FSRI) tactical considerations and the Fire Safety Academy. David Dodson, The Art of Reading Smoke (VVDC). NIOSH Fire Fighter Fatality Investigation and Prevention Program. NFPA 1700. NIST / UL residential fire experiments. FirefighterCloseCalls.com near-miss patterns. Free FSRI courses: training.fsri.org.