Course Overview
This course introduces the student to the issues related to fire management in the Wildland /Urban Interface. With the spread of home and other development into the forest interface, managers need to have a basic understanding of how to design using some FireSmart principles. There is also a requirement for managers to understand the interaction between local fire department operations and typical wildland fire-fighters. This course will also look at the initiative of Community Wildfire Protection Plans, currently used as the major funding for local government fuel management projects.
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Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Describe Wildland/Urban Interface fire management planning.
- Apply FireSmart planning principles that can be used to reduce wildfire hazards to a specific interface area.
- Evaluate the potential interface wildland fire situation.
- Order and deploy the necessary resources in an interface wildland fire situation.
- Apply safe and effective strategy and tactics to minimize property damage in an interface wildland fire situation.
- Describe how the Community Wildfire Protection Program (CWPP) as it relates to Wildland /Urban Interface Planning in B.C.
Effective as of Fall 2009
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