Introduction to Firefighting: S190 S 130 Topics
Intro students please download these things:
S 190 reference materials:
Humidity Psychometric Tables
PMS 425 NWCG Guide to Fire Weather Forecasts
PMS 425-1 Fire Weather
NWCG Wildland Fire Glossary
IRPG app download -Very handy reference tool (2022 version)
https://www.irpgapp.com/ 2022 IRPG pdf.
Weather Calculator app
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nafundi.nclfa.fdfm&hl=en_US
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nafundi.nclfa.fdfm&hl=en_US
10 and 18 reference tool
PMS 411- NWCG Standards for the M-2002 Fire Shelter
2021 Fire Shelter Update and Reminders
Avenza app from google Play store https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.Avenza
Avenza from Apple https://apps.apple.com/us/app/avenza-maps-offline-mapping/id388424049
Beyond the Powerpoint- We always strive to teach all topics included in course materials, however
some points might benefit from more time and emphasis and other topics might be very useful to include to prepare Intro students for an assignment. Here is a partial list of suggestions:
More Emphasis:
Risk Management with a flow chart of Situational Awareness: Look Up ,Down ,and Around factors;
Watch Out Situations: Fire Fighting Orders and LCES.
Heat Related Illness, Medical Emergency Planning and 8 Line Use.
Hazard of snags and rollers (If a Tree Falls https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4cg5EaZ-qg )
Fitness training.
MIST. (NWCG video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQpHSSAVDCU )
Firefighting in the WUI. (Jack Cohen videos)
Being Fire Ready.
Additional topics:
Avenza use (plus map compass, and Public Land Survey System)
Lightning Safety (WFSTAR; When Lightning Strikes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8ElFwENu-8&t=65s )
Using weather tools, Taking and reporting Weather and Probability of Ignition.
Set up and troubleshooting the Mark 3 pump and working with Engines.
Crew vehicle routine maintenance .Driving safely.
Beyond Your Limits
"Unskilled Labor" A Season With the Hotshots
Snag (dead tree) Awareness on fires: If a Tree Falls https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4cg5EaZ-qg
Fire Weather Forecast
When Lightning Strikes
The 18 and the 10 slides
LCES video 22min
Bryan Scholz 10 and 18
Fire Fighter Type 2 (Crewmember) Position Description
Wildland Fire Incident Command System Levels
Digging Fireline in Washington-Point of View
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wU4THOXWfNIForest Fire Fighting Fun (damentals)
The History of Smokejumping
NWCG Fire Environment chart
https://www.nwcg.gov/sites/default/files/publications/pms439.pdf Current Dead Fuel Moisture Maps link
Aids for Determinig Fuel Models 13
40 Fuel Models
Slope= Rise divided by Run x 100%
Topographic Influences on Fire Behavior s290
Atmospheric Stability unit 6 s 290
Fire Weather Cloud Chart
The "Chain"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunter%27s_chain
Edmund Gunter
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Gunter
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunter%27s_chain
Edmund Gunter
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Gunter
Reading USGS and BLM transportation maps with Township,Range,Sections
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opoWsz7M
Reading BLM Maps :The Public Land Survey System
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Land_Survey_System
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opoWsz7M
Reading BLM Maps :The Public Land Survey System
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Land_Survey_System
Clinomter app
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S 190 link for newest materials 2020
S 130 2020
L 180 Course Materials
Human Factors on the Fireline https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAnuwSEJ4kk&t=2084s
National Fire Equipment Catalog
https://www.nwcg.gov/sites/default/files/publications/pms449-2.pdf
Introduction to Fuels
Link
Introduction to Dead Fuel Moisture
Link
Snag (dead tree) Awareness on fires: If a Tree Falls https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4cg5EaZ-qg
Fireline Lookouts https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7B6mHWm0fzs&t=339s
Understanding Fire Behavior in the Wildland Urban Interface
Troubleshooting the Amazing Mark 3 Pump https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1bCYuwvmEE
Properly Remove and Replace a Stihl Gas Cap
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnug6YzH_Uo Fuel Geysering:Predictable?
MIST Tactics
Hose Packs
WUI with Jack Cohen
Wildfire Handtools
Fire Behavior
The Mighty Engine
Communications of Hazards NWCG
Beyond Your Limits
2022 year in review
NWCG Digital Maps
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