Course Description:
This is a virtual 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.

Course Objectives:
-Describe Crew Boss responsibilities prior to and during mobilization, on the incident, and during demobilization.
-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.

Target Group: Personnel desiring to be qualified as any Single Resource Boss.

Source: PMS 901-1

Qualified as a Firefighter Type 1 (FFT1)

Successful completion of Intermediate Wildland Fire Behavior, S-290

Satisfactory completion of pre-course work which will be assigned by the course coordinator upon selection.

Mike Housh

USFWS/KDF

(912) 281-1575

mike_housh@fws.gov

S-230-A Nomination

S-230-B Nomination