State Certification Courses

Our training is HB2604-qualified.

State testing is included in the course fee and is conducted on-site on the last day of class.

Fire Officer

FIRT-1042 Fire Officer I

This course is intended for existing officers, newly promoted officers or officer candidates. You will learn basic skills such as communication, effective supervision, and resource management.

Course Details

  • Total hours: 64
  • Time: 8 a.m.–5 p.m.
  • Cost: $285 per student
  • 2023 dates:
    • Online with State Exam & Skills completed in person on last day:
      • October 30–December 1
  • 2024 dates:
    • In person with State Exam held on last day:
      • January 29–February 8
      • May 6–16
      • October 7–17
    • Online with State Exam & Skills completed in person on last day:
      • February 26–March 29
      • June 24–July 25
      • October 28 –November 22

FIRT-2051 Fire Officer II

This course will teach you supervisory skills, resource management, and information management systems. You will also learn how to develop budgets and how local governments operate.

Course Details

  • Total hours: 64
  • Time: 8 a.m.–5 p.m.
  • Cost: $285 per student
  • 2024 dates:
    • In person with State Exam held on last day:
      • February 26–March 7
      • June 24–July 5 (class will not meet on July 4)
      • November 4–14
    • Online with State Exam & Skills completed in person on last day:
      • June 3–27
      • September 3–30

FIRT-2056 Fire Officer III

  • Total hours: 64
  • Cost: $285 per student
  • 2024 Dates:
    • Online with State Exam & Skills completed in person on last day:
      • May 13–June 14

FIRT-2057 Fire Officer IV

  • Total hours: 64
  • Cost: $285 per student
  • 2024 dates:
    • Online with State Exam & Skills completed in person on last day:
      • November 4–December 9

FIRT-1008 & 1040 Fire Inspector I & II

  • Total hours: 156
  • Cost: $400 per student
  • 2024 dates:
    • Online with State Exam & Skills completed in person on last day:
      • February 5–April 1
      • July 29–September 30

Fire Investigator

  • Total hours: 160
  • Cost: $450 per student
  • 2024 Dates:
    • Online with State Exam & Skills completed in person on last day:
      • May 28–June 27

FIRT-1002 Plans Examiner

  • Total hours: 40
  • Cost: $250 per student
  • 2024 Dates:
    • Online with State Exam & Skills completed in person on last day:
      • April 4–29

FIRS-2044 Driver / Pump Operator

In Person Only

This course will cover basic skills such as: pump theory, fire service hydraulics, apparatus inspection, pump operations and driving practices.

Course Details

  • Total hours: 64
  • Time: 8 a.m.–5 p.m.
  • Cost: $375 per student
  • 2023 dates with State Exam held on last day:
    • November 27–December 7
  • 2024 dates with State Exam held on last day:
    • February 12–22
    • March 25–April 4
    • April 22–May 2
    • June 3–13
    • October 7–17
    • December 2–12

FIRS-2044 Aerial Operator

In Person Only

  • Total hours: 50
  • Time: 8 a.m.–5 p.m.
  • Cost: $375 per student
  • 2024 dates with State Exam held on last day:
    • January 22–30
    • February 26–March 5
    • May 13–21
    • September 16–24
    • November 4–12

Fire Instructor

FIRT-2005 Fire Instructor I

This course prepares fire and emergency services personnel to teach from a prepared lesson plan. You will learn to use instructional aids and evaluation instruments to meet the curriculum requirements of the Texas Commission on Fire Protection (TCFP) for Fire Instructor I certification.

Course Details

  • Total hours: 48
  • Time: 8 a.m.–5 p.m.
  • Cost: $200 per student
  • 2024 dates:
    • In person with State Exam held on last day:
      • February 12–20
      • June 3–11
      • October 21–29
    • Online with State Exam & Skills completed in person on last day:
      • April 1–May 3
      • July 1–31
      • November 4–22

FIRT-2007 Fire Instructor II

This course prepares public safety personnel to teach technical skills, techniques and information.

Course Details

  • Total hours: 48
  • Time: 8 a.m.–5 p.m.
  • Cost: $200 per student
  • 2023 dates:
    • In person with State Exam held on last day:
      • November 27–December 5
  • 2024 dates:
    • In person with State Exam held on last day:
      • April 1–9
      • July 8–16
      • November 4–12
    • Online with State Exam & Skills completed in person on last day:
      • April 29–May 31
      • September 30–October 31

FIRT-2059 Fire Instructor III

This course prepares public safety personnel to teach technical skills, techniques and information.

Course Details

  • Total hours: 64
  • Cost: $200 per student
  • 2024 Dates:
    • Online with State Exam & Skills completed in person on last day
      • April 15–May 13

Hazardous Materials

FIRT-2045 HazMat Technician

In Person Only

This course focuses on advanced techniques, covering all levels of personnel protective equipment and emergency response. Topics include weapons of mass destruction, radiation, transportation and fixed facility emergencies. The course will be delivered using a combination of classroom instruction and extensive field exercises.

The Texas Commission of Fire Protection (TCFP) will administer a written exam upon completion of course requirements for state certification. The Department of Homeland Security, Office of Domestic Preparedness will provide you with a certification of Awareness Level training for Weapons of Mass Destruction of Responses at no additional charge.

Course Details

  • Total hours: 80
  • Time: 8 a.m.–5 p.m.
  • Cost: $400 per student
  • Prerequisites:
    • A background in public safety
    • An operational Level HazMat certification
    • An SCBA Certification—recommended
    • 29 CFR 1910.120 Certification—if you are not a firefighter
  • Requirements:
    • Bunker gear for field exercises
    • Jeans
    • Comfortable shirt
  • 2024 dates:
    • February 12–26
    • October 14–28

FIRT-2012 HazMat Incident Commander

This class prepares you for the challenging role of HazMat Incident Commander (HMIC) and leads to certification from the Texas Commission on Fire Protection (TCFP).

The HMIC is the responsible for:

  • All hazardous materials incidents
  • Weapon of mass destruction (WMD) incident activities
  • Development of strategies and tactics
  • Ordering and release of resources

The HMIC is not expected to be able to personally operate the various types of monitoring equipment but is expected to understand the functions and limitations of them and should be able to apply the results of air monitoring and detection in making and or approving decisions pertaining to Control Zones, PPE, Public Protection and other related issues.

According to OSHA and TCFP, the HMIC should meet all the following competencies:

  • Awareness Level HazMat
  • Operations Level HazMat
  • HazMat Incident Commander

Additional skills that must be met by the HMIC are:

  • Managing an incident within the incident command system
  • Specifically managing a HazMat scene
  • Knowledge of each job required at a HazMat incident
  • Knowledge and use of a variety of technical readings and resources

During complex incidents involving HazMat technicians or private sector specialists, the HMIC would use their expertise in formulating strategy, IAP, response objectives and action options.

Course Details

  • Total hours: 32
  • Time: 8 a.m.–5 p.m.
  • Cost: $135 per student
  • Prerequisites:
    • TCFP-commissioned Firefighter
    • TCFP Operations-Level HazMat certification
  • 2023 dates:
    • In person with State Exam held on last day:
      • December 4–8
  • 2024 dates:
    • In person with State Exam held on last day:
      • March 25–29
      • December 2–6
    • Online with State Exam held on last day:
      • September 3–20

FIRT-2011 Incident Safety Officer (ISO)

In this course, you will learn to identify and analyze safety concerns and to communicate recommended solutions to the Incident Commander. The class focuses on emergency scenes and the use of the Incident Command System.

Course Details

  • Total hours: 48
  • Time: 8 a.m.–5 p.m.
  • Cost: $265 per student
  • 2024 Dates:
    • In person:
      • March 18–26
      • October 21–29
    • Online:
      • January 29–February 27

Incident Commander

Hybrid course: Online & In Person

An Incident Commander is the individual who is responsible for all emergency incident activities, including the development of strategies and tactics and the ordering and release of resources.

This individual has overall authority and responsibility for conducting incident operations and for managing all incident operations at the incident site. The Incident Commander is also responsible for the safe and efficient mitigation of all emergency incidents.

Plan for mandatory in-person meetings the last week of the course (5 days).

Course Details

  • Total hours: 48
  • Cost: $250 per student
  • 2024 dates:
    • April 8–May 17
      • Online: April 8–May 12
      • In person: May 13–17
    • August 26–September 20
      • Online: August 26–September 15
      • In person: September 16–20

Textbook Policy

Borrow

For in-person classes only: The Fire Service Training Center (FSTC) has textbooks to loan to you while you are taking a class. We will collect all loaned textbooks on the last day of class.

If you are taking online courses, we cannot, unfortunately, loan textbooks to you.

Buy

If you prefer to purchase a textbook, you are responsible for buying your textbook(s) from an outside source before the first day of class.

Have questions?

For specific textbook information, please contact:

Darrell Rutledge, Coordinator
817-515-7365
darrell.rutledge@tccd.edu

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Contact

Northwest Campus

Fire Academy — Fire / Rescue Training

Darrell Rutledge
Coordinator

Call 817-515-7365

Email darrell.rutledge@tccd.edu

Updated January 08, 2024