FESCO learning subjects

Explore FESCO Fire Protection Education

One monthly membership connects six learning subjects, 24 lessons, scenario knowledge checks and your saved progress. Historical course purchases remain separately accessible.

Understand the fire risk

Build a practical foundation before looking at equipment.

• Start with prevention — Recognize a hazard and choose a useful first response.
• Fuel, heat and the environment — Explain why prevention considers more than visible flames.
• Fire and smoke change conditions — Recognize that a small-looking fire can still make escape unsafe.
• Turn observations into action — Use a simple prevention review without claiming an inspection credential.

Portable extinguishers

Understand labels, limitations and the decision to leave.

• Read the fire class — Use the U.S. classification framework without assuming every label is the same.
• Fight or flee is a decision — Identify the limits of an employee’s role before considering equipment.
• Know the equipment before an alarm — Distinguish familiarization from hands-on training.
• Notice and report equipment concerns — Separate a visual concern from maintenance or servicing.

Commercial kitchen protection

Connect cooking hazards, wet chemical systems and safe reporting.

• See the whole kitchen hazard — Recognize how cooking equipment and deposits interact.
• Understand wet chemical protection — Distinguish system purpose from permission to service it.
• Know the emergency role — Prepare to follow the kitchen emergency procedure.
• Protect readiness between service visits — Report changes without opening or adjusting the system.

Dry chemical system concepts

Understand purpose, terminology and the limits of awareness.

• Dry chemical is not dry powder — Use precise terms when describing protection.
• Local application and total flooding — Recognize two conceptual approaches without designing either.
• Warning, evacuation and discharge — Put people ahead of equipment during an incident.
• Maintain the chain of responsibility — Know which observations require escalation.

Hoods, ducts and grease

Follow the protection path beyond the visible hood.

• Trace the exhaust path — Understand why a clean-looking hood is only part of the picture.
• Grease control is a system task — Connect routine housekeeping with qualified system work.
• Document scope and limitations — Read a service record as evidence of work performed.
• Changes, impairments and return to service — Identify the handoff after a concern is found.

Emergency readiness

Build habits for work and home without waiting for an incident.

• Know the plan before you need it — Find the specific information that guides your response.
• Leave, assemble and account — Avoid adding a second emergency during evacuation.
• Make home prevention a habit — Apply awareness to everyday routines.
• Practice, reflect and return — Use short review sessions to strengthen decisions.

Full lessons require membership, apart from the complete free sample. New membership provides personal education records, not professional certification, licensing or regulatory approval.

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