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Category - Suppression Skills

S348 - Resources Unit Leader

Reviewed: 1999     Hours: 20

Course Description:

This course is designed to prepare the student to accomplish the duties and responsibilities of a resources unit leader (RESL) on a large incident.  Topics include:  organizing and managing the unit, check-in, tracking resource status, operational planning, and resources unit products.

An extensive exercise in which the student will organize and operate a resource unit, serves to test the student’s skills.  Data generated during this exercise may subsequently be used in the exercise for Demobilization Unit Leader (S-347).

The course is designed to be presented together with Demobilization Unit Leader (S-347).

Objectives:

  • Display the skills, knowledge, and tools necessary to be a resources unit leader (RESL).

Target Group:

Personnel desiring to be qualified as a resources unit leader (RESL).

Minimum Instructor Qualifications:

Lead and unit instructors must be qualified resource unit leaders (RESL).

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

Prerequisites:

Qualified as a status/check-in recorder (SCKN).
Successfully complete pre-course work and 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 12-17-2009.

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