USDA Forest Service
Pacific Southwest Region
Wildland Fire Training
- Technical Fire Management 2006 »
Technical Fire Management (TFM) is a continuing education program for fire and resource managers and technicians who have responsibilities for developing, administering and implementing fire management programs or projects.
TFM is designed for people in public agencies who have at least some experience in wildland fire suppression, fire prevention, fire management and the use of fire in attaining resource management goals.
- CA ROSS »
This site is designed to support the California Resource and Ordering
Status System (ROSS) user community with the latest updates and information pertaining specifically
to California.
- McClellan
Wildland Fire Training and Conference Center » The Wildland
Fire Training and Conference Center (WFTC) resides at the McClellan Business
Park, formerly McClellan Air Force Base. The WFTC was created to implement
National Fire Plan direction for the accelerated development and training
of wildland firefighters. WFTC provides classroom and meeting facilities for
agency and public non-commercial functions.WFTC is home to the Wildland Firefighter
Apprenticeship Program.
- Wildland Firefighter
Apprenticeship Academy » The National Interagency Wildland
Firefighter Apprenticeship Program is an accredited, educational program designed
to enhance and develop future Fire and Aviation Managers. The apprentice
is required to successfully complete a residential four-week Basic Academy,
a prescribed program of Technically Related Supplemental Training, supervised
on-the-job training, and an additional residential four-week Advanced Academy.
- Aviation
Safety Management School » This certificate program is designed
to provide students with a firm foundation in aviation safety principles and
practices underlying emergency response aviation. Through the values of leadership,
teamwork and ethics students will learn current and emerging aviation safety
management priciples and technologies.
- R5
Wildland Fire Training Site » This site enables access to the
California Geographic Area Interagency Wildland Fire Training program. There
are nine Training Centers that serve the Wildland Fire training needs of the
California Geographic Area. The California schedule is located here. The schedule
contains pertinent information about courses, workshops and meetings being
offered in California. All training center schedules will be updated with
the new training year by the end of August of each year.
- National
Wildland Fire Training Site » This site enables access
to Local Area, Geographic Area, National, and other related Interagency Wildland
Fire Training information. The home page also contains current training news
and a comment section. Allows a user to select a specific geographic area
to access information on the area workshops, meetings, and other courses;
names of nominees selected; names of students successfully completing courses;
course logistical information; current news; and other pertinent geographic
area information. Search nationally for interagency schedule of courses
which allows a user to query by various topics and complete a nomination form
electronically.
- National
Prescribed Fire Training Site » The National Interagency Prescribed
Fire Training Center (NIPFTC) is a unique program blending maximum field prescribed
burning experience with a flexible curriculum of instruction on topics of
interest to prescribed fire practitioners. Attendees will have the opportunity
to complete portions of the National Wildfire Coordinating Group (NWCG) approved
prescribed fire task books under the guidance of invited specialists.
- Interagency Aviation
Training »This system is made up of 36 modules of specific
aviation-related subject matter. Each subject module is designed to stand
alone or can be combined with other modules to create a course-like approach.
Any module may be presented in an instructor-led classroom setting regardless
of format. This allows agency employees to take only those subjects necessary
to do their job.
- National Wildfire
Coordinating Group (NWCG) » The group provides a formalized
system to agree upon standards of training, equipment, qualifications, and
other operational functions.