D310 - Support Dispatcher

Reviewed: 2007     Hours: 32-34

Course Description:

This course is designed to prepare the student to accomplish the duties and responsibilities of an Expanded Dispatch Support Dispatcher (EDSD). Through hands on exercises that utilize the Resource Ordering and Status System (ROSS) the student will organize, plan and implement a dispatch area to meet the needs of the incident(s); follow established policies and procedures using resource orders and supplemental forms, to mobilize, reassign, and demobilize resources; and demonstrate the ability to respond to changing priorities and situations.

Objectives:

• Plan, organize, and implement a functional area to meet the needs of the incident.

• Demonstrate the ability to interact with other functional areas in an incident support organization.

• Follow set established policies and procedures, utilize resource orders and supplemental forms to mobilize, reassign, and demobilize resources.

• Demonstrate the ability to respond to changing priorities and situations within a functional area.

Target Group:

Personnel desiring to be qualified as expanded dispatch support dispatcher (EDSD)

Minimum Instructor Qualifications:

Lead instructor must be a qualified initial attack dispatcher (IADP) or expanded dispatch supervisory dispatcher (EDSP).

Unit instructors must be qualified as expanded dispatch support dispatcher (EDSD).

Also see NWCG Instructor Qualifications at the beginning of this Guide.

Prerequisites:

Qualified as a dispatch recorder.

Satisfactorily pass pre-course test.

Offer Level:
Regional, state, or area

This Course Description is verbatim from the NWCG Field Manager's Course Guide (156 page PDF: Adobe Acrobat Reader required) and accurate as of 8-6-2008.

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