S336 - Tactical Decision Making in Wildland Fire

Reviewed: 2004     Hours: 24 - 32

Course Description:

This course is designed to meet training requirements in the Operations Section of the Incident Command System.  Examples and exercises in this package are specific to wildland fire suppression.

Objectives:

• Develop the knowledge and practice in decision making necessary to effectively apply wildland fire suppression tactics.
  
• Develop the tools for leadership in applying and teaching appropriate fire suppression tactics at their home unit.
  

Target Group:

This course is designed primarily to prepare experienced single resource bosses and initial attack incident commanders in the tactics necessary at the strike team/task force leader level.  It is also valuable for operations supervisors qualified at higher management levels who have not received training in wildfire suppression tactics.

Minimum Instructor Qualifications:

Lead instructor must be a qualified division/group supervisor (DIVS).
Unit instructors must be qualified strike team leaders (STL) or task force leaders (TFLD).

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

Prerequisites:

Qualified as a single resource boss or initial attack incident commander type 4 (ICT4).

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 9-22-2008.

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