Passenger Vehicle Rescue Technician (Awareness, Operations, Technician)  

Course Description: This sixty-hour combined course will provide an awareness-level, operations and technician level of information and skills as they pertain to passenger vehicle rescue incidents. At the completion of this program the student will be able to apply to challenge the NFPA 1006 Passenger Vehicle Certification test. Once successful with this certification test, a PA DOH Vehicle Rescue Technician will be issued.　

Passenger Vehicle Rescue Awareness – 24 (PVRA24) Prerequisite (s):　Participants entering the program must be at least 16 years of age by the first day of class, have completed the FEMA’s NIMS 100 & 700, an approved HAZMAT Awareness course, and a recognized Traffic Incident Management (TIM) certificate.                                                                                                                     Resources which maybe utilized but not required to be used.                                                             FEMA NIMS 100 & 700: https://training.fema.gov/nims/

HAZMAT Awareness: https://www.train.org/pa/course/1076417/details

Traffic Incident Management: https://www.train.org/pa/course/1082546/compilation OR

National TIM Training: https://learning.respondersafety.com/Clusters/National-TIM-Training-Certificate.aspx

Please refer to the Minimum Standard of Accreditation on (MSA) on the PSFA website

Textbook: Will be loaned out dring the class and returned and the completion of the class.

Pennsylvania Department of Health Continuing Education Hours:

Course Contact: Matt Fink, Fire Training Manager, office: (610) 344-5017 or via email at jfink@chesco.org.