There will be no class for S-130 / S-190 on Sunday June 5^th for “WVU Students” Pack Test will be given on Sunday June 5^th for “Academy Students” (instructor will advise of times).

S-130 Course Description:  This course is designed to provide entry level firefighter skills.  Many of the units are set up so they can be taught in either the classroom or the field.  A version of the L-180 has been included as part of this course. 

Objectives:

• Explain what the LCES (Lookouts, Communications, Escape Routes and Safety Zones) system is and how it relates to the Standard Firefighting Orders
• Construct fireline to required standards using various methods
• Strengthen, reinforce, and use holding actions on a fireline
• Extinguish the fire with or without the use of water
• Complete assigned tasks in a safe and efficient manner
• Given an assignment in a wildfire environment, describe factors in that environment which could impact safety

Prerequisites:  I-100, Introduction to Incident Command System must be completed prior to taking this course.  I-100 is a web-based course that can be taken at this site:  http://training.nwcg.gov/classes/i100.htm.  You must be connected to a printer to complete this course.  Once you have completed the course, print out the certificate to present to the instructor of the course.

S-190 Course Description:  This course provides instruction in the primary factors affecting the start and spread of wildfire and recognition of potentially hazardous situations.  It is designed to meet the fire behavior training needs of a firefighter type 2 (FFT2) on an incident as outlined in the PMS 310-1, Wildland Fire Qualification System Guide and the position task book developed for the position.

Objectives:

• Identify and discuss the three sides of the fire triangle
• Identify the environmental factors of fuels, weather and topography that affect the start and spread of wildland fire
• Describe the contributing factors that indicate the potential for increased fire behavior that may compromise safety

L-180 Course Description:  This training course is designed for unit-level supervisors to use when delivering orientation training to new crewmembers.  Presentation of the course involves a few short lecture segments, but the primary content is delivered by video and supported with small group exercises.  Topics include situation awareness, basic communication responsibilities, attitude and stress barriers, decision-making process, and teamwork principles.

Objectives:

 Students will demonstrate an understanding of their responsibilities to address human performance issues so they can integrate more effectively into crews/teams operating in high-risk, dynamic work environments

FI-110 Course Description:  The primary emphasis of this course is to teach sound wildland fire observations and origin scene protection practices that enable first responders to a wildland fire scene to perform proper origin scene protection procedures.  

Objectives:

• List various causes of wildland fires and their cause indicators
• Perform the basic procedures and techniques needed to provide witness/observer information to fire investigators
• Identify and protect wildland fire origin areas

Target Group:  Entry-level firefighters

Students must supply the following equipment:

• work clothing (i.e. long pants and shirt)
• lace-up boots
• eye and ear protection
• work gloves
• hardhat

You will need these items for your field day of class.

Course Fee: $150.00 (Early Registration) - Fee does not include lodging or meals

Course Description:  Wildfire Fire Chain Saws, S-212, is an instructor-led course intended to be presented at the local level. The course provides introduction to the function, maintenance and use of internal combustion engine powered chain saws, and their tactical wildfire fire application. Field exercises support entry level training for firefighters with little or no previous experience in operating a chain saw, providing hands-on cutting experience in surroundings similar to fireline situations.

Objectives:

• List, define, and apply chain saw safety standards as required by OSHA and NWCG member agency manuals, handbooks and directives
• Incorporate the approved use, maintenance, and function of personal protective equipment (PPE) in wildfire fire chain saw applications
• Identify basic chain saw parts nomenclature, maintenance, tuning, troubleshooting, and safety features
• Demonstrate field maintenance tasks required for chain saw operation
• Demonstrate the tactical application of chain saws in brushing, limbing, bucking, and falling for fireline construction and mop up operations

Prerequisites:  Qualified as a firefighter type 2 (FFT2)

Target Group:  Individuals desiring to be qualified as firefighter type 1 (FFT1), incident commander type 5 (ICT5) or felling boss (FELB)

Students must supply the following equipment:

• PPE (Personal Protective Equipment including saw chaps)
• lace-up boots
• eye and ear protection
• work gloves
• hardhat

You will be informed the first day of class when to wear these items.

Course Fee: $200.00 (Early Registration) - Fee does not include lodging or meals

Course Description:  This course is designed to assist structure and wildland firefighters who will be making tactical decisions when confronting wildland fire that threatens life, property, and improvements, in the wildland/urban interface.  Instructional units include interface awareness, size up, initial strategy and incident action plan, structure triage, structure protection tactics, incident action plan assessment and update, follow-up and public relations, and firefighter safety in the interface.

Instructional units include interface awareness, size up, initial strategy and incident action plan, structure triage,  structure protection tactics, incident action plan assessment and update, follow-up and public relations, and firefighter safety in the interface.

Objective: 

• This course provides students with the skills and knowledge to size-up a wildland/urban interface fire incident, evaluate the potential situation, order and deploy necessary resources, and apply safe and effective strategy and tactics to minimize the threat to life and property

Prerequisites:

• WildlandFire Agencies:  Students must be Firefighter Type 1 (FFT1) qualified
• Structural Fire Departments:  Students should have completed Introduction to ICS (I-100), Human Factors on the Fireline (L-180), Firefighter Training (S-130), Introduction to Wildland Fire Behavior (S-190), and Firefighter Type 1 (S-131); or equivalent training
• Students attending this course must be knowledgeable of their agency firefighting policy as it relates to wildland/urban interface fires

Target Group: 

• Wildland Fire Agencies:  This course is required training for strike team leader (tractor/plow, dozer, engine, or crew) and is recommended training for initial attack incident commander type 4 (ICT4)
• Structural Fire Departments:  This training is appropriate for engine operators, chief officers, and company officers responsible for structure protection in suburban and urban interface areas that may be threatened by wildland fire
• Additionally, leaders from municipal planning, law enforcement and emergency management disciplines may find value in the course

Fee:  $200.00 (Early Registration) – Fee does not include lodging or meals

Course Description: This course is designed to help students become effective facilitative instructors.  The purpose of this course is to improve training quality by presenting instructional methods with an emphasis on student-oriented adult training techniques.  This course is designed for students to meet NWCG instructor requirements.

Objective:

• Students will demonstrate effective facilitative instructor skills while giving three classroom presentations

Prerequisites: None

Target Group:  Personnel who will be teaching NWCG courses

Course Fee: $200.00 (Early Registration) - Fee does not include lodging or meals

Course Description:  This course is designed to meet the training needs of the incident commander type 4 (ICT4).  It is presented in a discussion/exercise format.  The six instructional units include Foundation Skills; Intelligence Gathering and Documentation; Sizing Up the Incident; Developing a Plan Action; Post-fire Activities; Evaluating Incident Objectives and Managing the Incident.  Evaluation of the student is by unit tests and performance based evaluations.

Objectives:

• Demonstrate effective foundation skills (leadership, risk management, and communications) at the ICT4 level
• Gather and document essential information about the incident
• Size up the incident, develop plan of action
• Manage the incident through effective leadership
• Demonstrate the ability to evaluate plan of action and make adjustments to the plan when necessary
• Conduct post-fire activities

Prerequisite:  Qualified as any single resource boss

Target Group:  Personnel desiring to be qualified as an incident commander type 4 (ICT4)

Course Fee: $125.00 (Early Registration) - Fee does not include lodging or meals

Course Description:  This is a classroom course designed to produce student proficiency in the performance of duties associated with the single resource boss position from initial dispatch through demobilization to the home unit.  Topics include operational leadership, preparation and mobilization, assignment preparation, risk management, entrapment avoidance, safety and tactics, offline duties, demobilization, and post incident responsibilities.

Objectives: 

• Describe crew boss responsibilities prior to and during mobilization, on the incident, and during mobilization
• Identify the hazards and risks on various incidents and describe how to mitigate them
• Describe tactics which are appropriate to various wildland fire situations and procedures to implement them through the chain of command

Prerequisite:  Qualified as firefighter type 1 (FFT1) and successful completion of Intermediate Wildland Fire Behavior (S-290)

Target Group:Required training for personnel desiring to be qualified as a single resource boss

Course Fee: $200.00 (Early Registration) - Fee does not include lodging or meals

Course Description:  This course is designed to meet the training needs of the incident commander type 3 (ICT3).  The focus is on the lessons of leadership and command as they relate to the ICT3 position.  It is presented in participative lecture format with multiple tactical decision games for students to practice new knowledge.  The seven instructional units cover Foundation Skills, Situational Awareness, Command and Control, Managing the Incident, Transitional Activities, Post-fire Activities and a Final Simulation. 

Objectives: 

• Demonstrate an understanding of the concept of Command as it relates to the ICT3
• Demonstrate effective foundation skills (leadership, risk management, and communications) at the ICT3 level
• Develop situational awareness of incident environment
• Demonstrate effective command and control over a quickly assembled team in a time constrained and rapidly changing incident environment
• Demonstrate the ability to manage an incident
• Conduct post fire activities

• Qualified as an incident commander type 4 (ICT4) and qualified as a task force leader (TFLD)

OR

• Qualified as an ICT4 and as a strike team leader and any two single resource boss positions – one must be (CRWB) or engine (ENGB)
• Completion of pre-course work assignment

Target Group:Personnel desiring to be qualified as incident commander type 3 (ICT3)

Course Fee: $125.00 (Early Registration) - Fee does not include lodging or meals

Course Description:  This course is designed to provide student proficiency in all areas of the tactical and logistical use of helicopters to achieve efficiency and standardization.  Topics include aviation safety, aircraft capabilities and limitations, aviation life support equipment, aviation mishap reporting, pre-flight checklist and briefing/debriefing, aviation transportation of hazardous materials, crash survival, and helicopter operations. 

Objectives: 

• Identify the skills necessary to work with a helicopter in the performance of tasks standard to helicopter operations
• Identify required safety procedures related to working with helicopters

Prerequisite: 

• Non-fire personnel:  None
• Fire personnel:  Qualified as a firefighter type 2 (FFT2)

Target Group:  Personnel involved in fire and non-fire project assignments with helicopter

Course Fee: $150.00 (Early Registration) - Fee does not include lodging or meals

Course Description: This course is an instructor-led course intended to be presented at the local level. The course consists of three skill areas: supply, delivery, and application of water. Students will be required to demonstrate their knowledge of correct water use, basic hydraulics, and equipment care. The field exercise requires set up, operation, and maintenance of pump equipment. To receive credit for this course, students must have field work observed and approved, and take a closed book written final examination.

Objectives:

• Select equipment required to maintain a flow of water as required by the incident
• Install pumps, hose lays, and holding tanks to provide water for use during all phases of the incident
• Perform required field maintenance on a portable pump

Prerequisites: None

Target Group:  Individuals desiring to gain competency in the use of portable pumps and water.

Students must supply the following equipment:

• work clothing (i.e. long pants and shirt)
• lace-up boots
• eye and ear protection
• work gloves
• hardhat

You will need these items for your field day of class.

Course Fee:$150.00 (Early Registration) - Fee does not include lodging or meals

Course Description:  This course provides description and detail of the Incident Command System (ICS) organization and operations in supervisory roles on expanding or Type 3 incidents.  Topics include ICS fundamentals review, incident/event assessment and agency guidance in establishing incident objectives, unified command, incident resource management, planning process, demobilization, transfer of command, and close out.  This course is National Incident Management Systems (NIMS) compliant.

Objectives: 

• Describe how the National Incident Management System (NIMS) Command and Management component supports the management of expanding incidents
• Describe the incident/event management process for supervisors and expanding incidents as prescribed by the Incident Command System (ICS)
• Implement the incident management process on a simulated Type 3 incident
• Develop an Incident Action Plan (IAP) for a simulated incident

Prerequisite:  I-200, Basic:  ICS for Single Resources and Initial Actions Incidents

Target Group:Type 3 Incident Management Team (IMT) candidates, incident middle management (Unit Leaders, Division/Group Supervisors, and Strike Team Leaders), elected officials, line officers, lead dispatchers, Multi-agency Coordination (MAC) members, director heads (public works director, fire chief, sheriff) emergency managers, and agency representatives

Course Fee: $150.00 (Early Registration) - Fee does not include lodging or meals

Course Description: This training course is designed as a self-assessment opportunity for individuals preparing to step into a leadership role.  The course combines one day classroom instruction followed by a second day in the field with students working through a series of problem solving events in small teams (Field Leadership Assessment Course).  Topics include:  leadership values and principles, transition challenges for new leaders, situational leadership, team cohesion factors, and ethical decision-making.

Objectives:

• Students will demonstrate an understanding of fundamental leadership principles
• Students will assess their individual traits and motivation for entering into a leadership role

Prerequisites:

• Experience on incident assignments in operations or support functions
• Human Factors on the Fireline (L-180), and successful completion of 3-4 hours of pre-course work

Target Group:  Personnel desiring to be qualified as a single resource boss

Course Fee: $90.00 (Early Registration) - Fee does not include lodging or meals

Students must supply the following equipment:

• work clothing (i.e. long pants and shirt)
• lace-up boots
• eye and ear protection
• work gloves
• hardhat

You will need these items for your field day of class.