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Jun 19 - 20 2019 EDT

Workshops, Trainings and Fieldtrips

Contact

Meghan Lauer
nata@ifas.ufl.edu

Location

Doyle Conner Building - Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services
1911 SW 34th st; Gainesville, FL 32608

This is a National Wildfire Coordinating Group (NWCG) training course designed for individuals currently qualified as a Firefighter Type 1 (FFT1) with knowledge of their agency firefighting policy as it relates to wildland/urban interface fires.

This course is designed to assist structure and wildland firefighters who will be making tactical decisions when confronting wildland fire that threatens life, property, and improvements in the wildland/urban interface. Instructional units include interface awareness, size-up, initial strategy and incident action plan, structure triage, structure protection tactics, incident action plan assessment and update, follow-up and public relations, and firefighter safety in the interface.

Participants should have wildland fire experience and must have completed S-130/190 (Basic Wildland Firefighter) and S-131 (Firefighter Type 1) prior to this course. Please bring your IRPG.