Course Description: This is a classroom-based skills course designed to prepare the prospective fireline supervisor to undertake safe and effective fire management operations. It is the second course in a series that collectively serves to develop fire behavior prediction knowledge and skills. Fire environment differences are discussed as necessary; instructor should stress local conditions.

Course Objectives:
• Identify and describe the characteristics of fuels, weather, and topography that influence wildland fire behavior.
• Describe the interaction of fuels, weather, and topography on wildland fire behavior, fireline tactics, and safety.
• Describe the causes of extreme fire behavior conditions (long range spotting, crowning, and fire whirls) that develop due to weather, fuels, and/or topography.
• Interpret, communicate, apply, and document wildland fire behavior and weather information.

Target Group: Personnel seeking qualification as any Single Resource Boss or Fire Effects Monitor (FEMO).

Source: PMS 901-1

Introduction to Wildland Fire Behavior (S-190)
Satisfactory completion of pre-selection assessment
and
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