Category - Suppression Skills

S231 - Engine Boss (Single Resource)

Reviewed: 2004 Hours: 12-16

Course Description:

This is a skill course designed to produce student proficiency in the performance of the duties associated with engine boss, single resource (ENGB). Topics include: engine and crew capabilities and limitations, information sources, fire size-up considerations, tactics, and wildland/urban interface.

Objectives:

Perform the tasks of an engine boss in making the tactical decisions required to safely manage an engine on an incident.

Target Group:

Personnel desiring to be qualified as an engine boss (ENGB).

Minimum Instructor Qualifications:

Lead instructor must be a qualified strike team leader engine (STEN) or task force leader (TFLD).
Unit instructors must be qualified as engine boss (single resource) (ENGB).

Also see Instructor Certification at the beginning of the Field Manager's Course Guide.

Prerequisites:

Crew Boss, Single Resource (S-230).
Qualified as a firefighter type 1 (FFT1).

Offer Level:
Local

This Course Description is verbatim from the NWCG Field Manager's Course Guide (156 page PDF: Adobe Acrobat Reader required) and accurate as of 12-17-2009.

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