S290 - Intermediate Wildland Fire Behavior

Reviewed: 2007     Hours: 32

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.

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 firewhirls) that develop due to weather, fuels, and/or topography.
  
• Interpret, communicate, apply, and document wildland fire behavior and weather information.
  

Target Group:

Personnel desiring to be qualified as: any single resource boss or fire effects monitor (FEMO).

Minimum Instructor Qualifications:

The lead instructor must be qualified at the strike team leader (STL) or task force leader (TFLD), or prescribed fire burn boss type 2 (RXB2).  Successfully completed S-490 Advanced Fire behavior Calculations is recommended.

Unit instructors must be qualified as a single resource boss. A meteorologist is highly recommended to instruct the weather sections of this class.

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

Prerequisites:

Introduction to Wildland Fire Behavior (S-190).

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 9-22-2008.

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