Citation

Shang SH, Wu YS, Chang KY, Kao SF, Huang CJ. J. Appl. Fire Sci. 2013; 23(3): 299-306.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2013, Baywood Publishing)

DOI

10.2190/AF.23.3.c

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

In recent years, major disasters occur frequently due to changes in climate and social patterns. Regardless of natural or man-made disasters, it poses great challenges and threats to firefighters implementing various relief operations. Therefore, professional fitness and skills of firefighters can be gradually enhanced by varied in-service training. With Taiwan's New Taipei City Fire Department as an example, this study explores whether the implementation of the rescue training process can help to enhance the disaster response capacity of firefighters. Moreover, with personnel participating in training as the study sample, and in accordance with Kirkpatrick's "Four Levels," this study analyzed the reaction level, learning level, behavior level, and results level of the trainees by questionnaire survey. The statistical data was applied with SPSS (Statistical Product and Service Solutions) 12.0 to understand the overall training results.