The Special Projects Unit also conducts a three day foam coordinator's course for Battalion Foam Coordinators. Approximately 20 Battalion Chiefs attend this course at one time. The first two days are dedicated to classroom lectures, the third is devoted to, a hands-on drill with a foam company. Additionally, the unit conducts periodic drills with foam units. And, as new equipment is assigned to the foam units, they are detailed to the Academy for training.

The classroom section of training for the Battalion Foam Coordinators includes the mechanics of foam, guidelines for the use of foam on hazardous liquids, the different types of foam and their uses, the storage of foam concentrates, the methods and equipment needed to generate foam, as well as vapor control of chemicals by foam. The classroom problem-solving portion includes calculating spill application rates, calculating tank application rates and mixing problems. This course also includes practice and review of the various foam evolutions from a foam concentrate multiple supply system to high expansion foam generator use.

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Programs offered at the FDNY Fire Academy

• Chauffeur Training School
• Battalion Foam Coordinators
• Collapse Training
• Hazardous Materials Training Unit
• Rescue School
• Rope/Ceremonial Unit
• Special Projects
• First Line Supervisors Training Program
• Confined Space Training
• Roof Training
• Mand Library
• Tactical Training
• Probationary Firefighter's School
• John Jay (CUNY)