Nozzle Forward

Service Description

Nozzle Forward is a two-day course beginning in the classroom & quickly transitioning into the field with hands-on training. Nozzle Forward is presented by a cadre of fire service experts. Students learn skills to gain mechanical advantages with hoselines, creating a system hoseline management, movement, and fire attack. The principles of hoseline management taught in Nozzle Forward apply to every engine, every fire, and every firefighter. Nozzle Forward skills are adapted from many sources and reconstructed around simple principles that maximize mechanical advantage. Nozzle Forward techniques have been adopted in full or part by fire service agencies across America. Students must be prepared to train beyond 7:00 p.m. each day. Students must meet the training requirements and provide structural PPE described in WAC 296-305. Students must be assigned firefighters with a public fire department, fire authority or fire district in the state of Washington.