190-Introduction to Wildland Fire Behavior    24 hrs.

This course introduces students to the basic concepts of wildland fire behavior, including: the primary wildland fire environment components: fuels, weather, and topography; how characteristics and interactions of fuels, weather, and topography affect fire behavior; how fire behavior affects risk to firefighters.

S-190 Objectives / Details:

● Describe the basic terminology used in wildland fire.

● Identify and discuss the fire triangle.

● Identify and discuss key characteristics of the primary wildland fire environment

components - fuels, weather, and topography.

● Identify critical fire weather factors that, combined with receptive fuels, may result

in extreme fire behavior.

● Recognize how alignment of fuels, weather, and topography can increase the

potential for extreme fire behavior.

● Introduce human performance factors in high-risk work environments and add

this knowledge to student’s skill set.

● Provide opportunities to explore human performance concepts and the related

vocabulary.

● Reinforce professional responsibility to address human performance issues while

on the job