Firefighting: Forestry S-130, S-190, L180 Wildland Fire Fighting

40 Clock Hours

These classes are designed to teach a firefighter how to function as a wildland firefighter.  The student learns how to safely work at a woods fire, how to predict what the fire is going to do and how to recognize and survive an On Scene Emergency.

S-130: Basic Wildland Fire Fighting

This Class is designated to show the firefighter how to:

1. Maintain Safety in wildland fire fighting
2. Manage tools, firing devices, and equipment in the field
3. Suppress and control fire within a fire line
4. Construct fire lines and control lines while maintaining safety
5. Manage transportation and resource typing
6. Deployment of fire shelters
7. Hazardous and human factors on the fire ground

S-190: Fire Weather

This Class is designated to show the firefighter how to:

1. Identify weather patterns as it relates to wildland fire fighting
2. Shows the firefighter how to mitigate typography and fuels and learn how they directly affect large and small wild fires.

L-180: Human Factors in Wildland Fire Fighting

Human Factors in the Wildland Fire Services is a basic human performance skills course. This course is designed as a 4-6 hour classroom experience. Its primary purpose is to establish an awareness of human performance issues and how they can impact fire service job performance. This course addresses human performance content that relates to the individual, including situation awareness, communication, decision making, risk management, and teamwork skills. The desired outcome of this training is improved awareness of human performance issues int he fire service so that individual firefighters can integrate more effectively into teams/crews working in dynamic, high risk environments.