S234 - Ignition Operations

Reviewed: 1999     Hours: 32

Course Description:

This is an entry-level course providing training in the functional roles and responsibilities connected with firing operations.  The course covers, planning, ignition procedures and techniques, and equipment applicable to wildland and prescribed fire.  This course also addresses the role of the ignition specialist or firing boss as the organization manages escalation from a non-complex to a complex fire situation.  Note:  This course is not intended to qualify or certify any personnel in the use, storage, or transport of any firing device.  Rather, it is to provide the potential firing boss a description of available equipment and the requirements specific to each such device.

Objectives:

• Describe the role and responsibility of the single resource boss (FIRB), firing and prescribed fire ignition specialist (RXI2) for planning, execution, safety, training, and coordination of an on-incident burn operation.
  
• Analyze an ignition/firing plan and describe its validity.
  
• Write an ignition/firing plan to include:  ignition method, firing tactics, resource needs, and safety.
  

Target Group:

Personnel desiring to be qualified as firing boss, single resource (FIRB) and resource personnel involved in fire use.

Minimum Instructor Qualifications:

Lead instructor must be a qualified firing boss (single resource) (FIRB).
Unit instructors must be qualified as any single resource boss.

Also see NWCG Instructor Qualifications at the beginning of the Field Managers Course Guide.

Prerequisites:

Intermediate Wildland Fire Behavior (S-290).

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 9-19-2008.

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