CLASS DESCRIPTION

This course provides information and develops skills required to perform and hold firing operations on wildland fires and prescribed burns. This course contains a mix of online and instructor-led training including live fire exercises. The students will be engaged in wildland firefighting and firing operations. Students are required to complete the online training portion of the course and pre-course quizzes prior to taking the instructor-led training. This course meets and exceeds the objectives of the NWCG S-219 Firing Operations (2014) course.

NOTE

Classroom dates: April 28 & 29
Burn dates: (tentatively based on fuels)
 - Sometime between May 19 & June 30
 - Students will be given at least a weeks notice as it gets closer

INSTRUCTOR

Captain Matt Thau, Livermore-Pleasanton FD

PREREQUISITES

NWCG 310-1: Wildland Firefighter Type 1 (FFT1); and 
S-290: Intermediate Wildland Fire Behavior (classroom only); and 
Online component for NWCG S-219: Firing Operations; and 
Two (2) pre-course instructor-developed quizzes