S-290 Intermediate Wildland Fire Behavior

Course Dates: 
Monday, August 5  - Thursday, August 8
Time: 8:30 a.m. – 5 p.m
32 Hours Total
Location: Ventura Training Center,
2800 Wright Road, Camarillo, CA 93010

This in person classroom-based course is designed to prepare the prospective fireline supervisor to undertake safe and effective fire management operations. It is the second course in a series that collectively serves to develop fire behavior prediction knowledge and skills. It builds upon the basics in S-190, but with more detailed information about characteristics and interactions of the wildland fire environment that affect wildland fire behavior for safety purposes. This course is required of those planning to work as one of the Single Resource Bosses or a Fire Effects Monitor on wildfires, fire use fires, and prescribed fires. 

S-290 Intermediate Fire Behavior Training Objectives:

• Identify and describe the characteristics of fuels, weather, and topography that influence wildland fire behavior.  

• Describe the interaction of fuels, weather, and topography on wildland fire behavior, Fireline tactics, and safety.  

• Describe the causes of extreme fire behavior conditions (long range spotting, crowning, and fire whirls) that develop due to weather, fuels, and/or topography.  

• Interpret, communicate, apply, and document wildland fire behavior and weather information.

Prerequisites: S-190 Introduction to Wildland Fire Behavior

Registration: Please contact surefiretraining@yahoo.com to register for this course. 

Information: For additional information contact Woody Bouska at 925-989-0983 or surefiretraining@yahoo.com

Please note that there is a $75.00 State Fire Training Certification fee for this course that will be paid to the instructor upon completion of the training.