Basic Wildfire Course

20-hour training, organized by DREAM Italia

Very practical training in which it is intended to perform real fire and incorporates the latest techniques on forest fire emergency.

Objectives

• Knowledge of LACES and TEFF procedures and their application to forest fire fighting.
• Establish the standards and methods used in the elaboration of lines of defence.
• Knowing water extinguishing operations
• Knowing waterless extinguishing operations
• Perform tasks safely and efficiently
• Know and describe the factors that can compromise the safety of firefighting operations.
• Basic knowledge about fire (fire triangle)
• Identify the fuels, meteorology and topography factors that affect the initiation and spread of wildfires.
• Obtain basic concepts about the Forest Fire Emergency Management System – SMEIF.
• Identify the factors and indicators of danger situation around fire behaviour.

Content

• The current problem of forest fires
• Introduction (Legal Definition of Forest Fire)
• Factors, dynamics and physics of fire
• Basic principles of fire behaviour
• Extinction Techniques
• Methodology of action with hand tools
• Methodology of action with water
• Methodology of action with heavy machinery
• Personal safety
• Personal protective equipment

Addessed to:

– Emergency personnel (fire fighters, volunteers, foresters, etc.)
– University students and students of Intermediate and Higher Technical Certificate related to the Environment and/or Civil Protection.
– Forestry workers who wish to orient their training towards emergency-related jobs.