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Fuels and Wildfire Behavior - Training Module
"This PFX Training Module is a self-paced mini-course that includes short self-assessments throughout.
Learning Objectives:
- Understand how fuel type, characteristics, arrangement, and environment affects fire risk and fire behavior.
- Be able to identify hazardous fuels types and arrangements on a landscape. "
FEMA ICS Resource Center
Firefighter Training and Firefighter Education
FireFit Program
"This program was created with the intent to provide the interagency wildland fire community with a comprehensive, easy-to-follow, fitness program with the ultimate goal of improving firefighter safety and health and reducing injuries. This program provides a basic format for a well balanced fitness program that can be augmented as local units see fit. Program success will rely on management support at every level as well as individual's motivation and participation."
Agricultural Leadership Program of Hawaii
National Wildfire Coordinating Group Training and Qualifications
Firewise Firefighter Safety Online Course
“The Firefighter Safety Series is a multipart information package from the National Wildland/Urban Interface Fire Program. It addresses problems faced by structural and wildland firefighters when fighting fires, especially those threatening structures in the wildland/urban interface. An important goal is to improve knowledge of firefighter safety and survival issues.”