S590 - Adv Fire Behavior Interpretation

Hours: 80

Course Description:

Through the use of lecture, demonstrations and exercises the student will learn the job of the FBAN/LTAN. Units covered will include:

S-590 Fire Behavior Interpretation		Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities
Unit	Unit Description	Gained at Course	Brought to Course
Archival	Fire Behavior Documentation Package, Legal considerations	Organizational, Communication	Computer Skills
Application	Safety, Briefings, Forecasts, Decision Support, Strategic Plan Development, Firing Operations, Advanced Applications, reinforced with exercises	Organizational, Communication, & Computer Skills	Intuitive, Operational Skills, & Computer Skills
Analysis	Skills learned in prerequisite courses, develop support for decision making, and demonstrate in exercises	Organizational, Communication, & Computer Skills	Analytical Skills & Computer Skills
Acquisition	Skills learned in prerequisite courses, reinforced with obtaining fire environment and fire behavior information, and internet use.	Organizational, Communication, & Computer Skills	Computer Skills

Objectives:

1. Describe the FBAN/LTAN responsibilities and interactions with managers, management teams, meteorologists, and others.
2. Demonstrate skills in analyzing, interpreting, displaying, and communicating fire behavior information.
3. Apply fire behavior predictive information in support of all types of wildland fire planning and operations.
4. Demonstrate the ability to effectively communicate orally and in writing appropriate wildland fire behavior predictive information.
5. Demonstrate the ability to prepare a complete fire behavior documentation package.

Target Group:

Individuals to be trained as a Fire Behavior Analyst (FBAN) and Long Term Fire Analyst (LTAN) in wildland fire suppression and fire use organizations.

Minimum Instructor Qualifications:

This course is managed by a National Steering Committee.

Prerequisites:

The prerequisites listed below are consistent with the direction from the May 2008 Wildland Fire Qualification System Guide, PMS 310-1.

All applicants must have completed S-490 Advanced Wildland Fire Behavior Calculations, and demonstrate proficiency in the use of BehavePlus and Windows operating system. All nominees will need to successfully complete a pre-course test that will take no more than 4 hours.

In addition, those students seeking qualification as a Fire Behavior Analyst must be qualified as Division/ Group Supervisor (DIVS) under the Incident Command System.

Students seeking qualification as a Long Term Fire Analyst must be qualified as a Fire Effects Monitor and a Firing Boss, Single Resource, under the Incident Command System. In addition, they must have completed S-492, Long Term Fire Risk Assessment and S-493, FARSITE: Fire Growth Simulation. If both S-492 and S-493 have not been successfully completed, students can complete the replacement course targeted as S-495, Geospatial Fire Analysis, Interpretation, and Application.

There will be additional pre-course work that is estimated to take approximately 30 hours.

Success in S-590 will depend on the student's ability in communication skills, both written and oral. Additional skills could be obtained by attending the Facilitative Instructor course, M-410 or other public speaking and technical writing courses.

Those applying for FBAN position will be evaluated in the areas of short-term fire behavior prediction, assessing the likelihood of success for strategies and specific tactical operations, and the identification and mitigation of fire behavior related firefighter safety concerns.

Nominees for LTAN position will be evaluated in the areas of short-term fire behavior prediction, and an understanding of long-term risk assessments, fire area growth simulation and NFDRS.

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