FST 249 - Company Officer 2E: Wildland Incident Operations

Credits: 2

Prerequisite: FST 224, FST 272 or equivalent as approved by the Vice President of Instruction and Student Services.
Description: This course provides information on evaluating and reporting incident conditions, analyzing incident needs, developing and implementing a plan of action to deploy incident resources completing all operations to suppress a wildland fire, establishing an incident command post, creating an incident action plan, and completing incident records and reports.

Transferable
Transferable to CSU only

General Education:
Not approved for General Education

Student Learning Outcomes:

Demonstrate skill in applying concepts of command safety and the risk management process, pre-incident planning considerations, and command considerations at wildland fire incidents.
Demonstrate skill in applying Company Officer initial actions at a wildland fire incident including the development of incident priorities, strategy, tactics and information on the roles and responsibilities of a Company Officer for post-incident actions.

Total Course In-Class (Contact) Hours: 40
Course Duration (Weeks): 18
Weekly Student Hours (In-Class) Lecture Hours: 2.22