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I. Introduction
a. Orientation and administration
b. Certification levels in the Fire Officer certification process
1. Company officer
2. Chief officer
3. Executive fire officer
c. Courses required for fire officer
d. Capstone task book requirements
II. The WUI Environment
a. Fire Suppression in the WUI environment
1. WUI terms and definitions
2. WUI hazards and limitations
3. Historic WUI fires and their impact on firefighting and training
4. WUI firefighting challenges
5. Common denominators of tragic and near miss WUI fires
b. Community partnership initiatives
1. Purpose of fire safe councils
2. Ready, Set, Go program
3. Property and structure protection activities
4. WUI construction requirements and features
5. Defensible space and structure survivability
6. Public evacuation planning
III. Authority And Responsibility
a. Jurisdictional authority and responsibility
1. Federal, state and local responsibility areas
2. Direction protection areas
3. State and Federal mutual aid agreements
4. Local mutual aid agreements
5. Working with assisting and cooperating agencies
6. Team building with cooperating agencies
7. Working with the media
8. Private industry fire response
b. WUI company officer responsibilities and leadership fundamentals
1. Leadership motivation and levels of leadership
2. Situational leadership
3. The leadership environment
4. Sources of power
5. Different leadership styles
6. Leadership guiding values
7. Command presence
8. Phases of crew cohesion
9. Intracrew and intercrew cohesion
10. Crew safety
11. Code of conduct at a WUI fire
12. Leader's intent and appropriate action
IV. Fire Behavior Forecasting
a. Fire behavior in California's fire environment
1. Impact of California's geographic locations have on fire behavior
2. Wind types and their influence on fire behavior
3. Thunderstorms and downdrafts
4. Fuel characteristics that affect wildland fire behavior
5. Topographical features that affect wildland fire behavior
6. Microclimates and their effect on wildfires
7. Seasonal variability and its effect on fuels
8. Special atmospheric considerations
9. Extreme fire behavior
10. Smoke columns and colors
11. WUI fire behavior and tactical options
b. Collecting and using wildland fire weather, fuels and topographical information
1. The Campbell Predication System
2. Fireline Handbook weather information
3. Computer fire weather applications
4. Collection and use of intelligence from internet and radio broadcasts
5. Use of a field belt weather kit
6. Use of electronic pocket weather systems
V. Managing Risk and Firefighter Safety
1. Situational awareness
2. Rules of engagement
3. The primary, alternative, contingency emergency (PACE) tactical engagement process
4. The defend, reinforce, advance, withdraw and delay (DRAW-D) engagement levels
5. Lookouts, communications, escape routes and safety zones
6. WUI safety and survival
7. The survival, fire environment, access, construction, time constraints and stay or go (S-FACTS) safety assessment process
8. Decision points
9. Rehabilitation of responders
10. Risk management process
11. Risk refusal
12. Decision making process
13. Decision-making errors on past wildland fires
14. Seven barriers to situational awareness and decision making
15. Fire steep assertive statement process
VI. WUI Incident Operations
a. Pre-incident considerations
1. Evaluation of potential risks
2. The pre-incident planning process
3. Weather preparedness
4. Staffing augmentation plans
b. Readiness of assigned personnel and equipment
1. Personnel preparation
2. Engine preparation
3. Recommended equipment for Type-3 engines
4. Wildland and structural personal protective equipment (PPE)
c. Radio communications
1. Use of radio nets
2. ICS communication plans
3. Radio capabilities
4. Communication interoperability
5. Radio procedures
6. Communication problems
7. Radio troubleshooting
8. Firefighter emergency traffic
d. Resource needs, availability and capability
1. Determining resource needs
2. Capabilities and benefits of different engine types
3. Considerations when working with Type-3 engines
4. Hand crew typing
5. Bulldozer typing
6. Performance standards for engines, hand crews and dozers
7. Strike team typing
8. Water tender typing
9. Aircraft typing
10. Helicopter and helitack crew typing
11. Air tanker typing
12. Specialized WUI equipment and personnel
e. Size-up and report on conditions
1. Pre-incident awareness considerations
2. Dispatch information
3. Information gathered en-route
4. Critical size-up factors
5. Report on conditions
f. WUI fire suppression considerations
1. WUI incident priorities
2. SMART incident control objectives
3. WUI fire suppression strategies
4. WUI tactical actions and maneuvers
5. The three categories of structural triage
6. The S-FACT structural triage checklist
7. The top down structure triage method
8. The three primary structure defense tactical options
9. The five secondary structural defense tactical options
10. Structure fire engagement guidelines in the WUI
11. Perimeter control attack and control methods
12. Fire control lines
13. Firing operations considerations
14. Fixed wing aircraft utilization, effectiveness and limitations
15. Rotor wing aircraft utilization, effectiveness and limitations
16. Firefighting chemicals used in WUI fires
g. WUI plan of action
1. Components of the initial attack management cycle
2. Components of the planning cycle
3. Application of ICS at a WUI fire
4. Components of an ICS 201 used at a WUI fire
5. Procedures for the transfer of command
VII. Mobilization To An Expanding WUI Incident
a. Mobilization and response to an expanding incident
1. Types of mobilization for initial attack, immediate need and planned need
2. Critical dispatch and travel information
3. Documentation necessary for mobilization
4. Logistical support available enroute
b. Written IAP familiarization
1. Components and needs of an IAP
2. Map Symbology
3. STAND map acronym
c. Administrative duties of mobilization
1. Check-in locations
2. Resource status options at an incident
3. Activities that occur in staging
4. Communication plan information
5. Briefing and work assignment procedures
6. Incident administrative and logistical support
7. Incident demobilization procedures
8. Incident documentation procedures
9. After action reviews and debriefings
