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RT-130, Wildland Fire Safety Training Annual Refresher (WFSTAR)

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How to Properly Refuse Risk

Demonstrate How to Properly Refuse Risk, incorporating the Risk Management Process, 10 Standard Firefighting Orders, and 18 Watchout Situations, as referenced in the Incident Response Pocket Guide (IRPG), PMS 461.
Category: Fire-Environment
Core Component(s):
Human Factors, Communication and Decision Making
Estimated Delivery Time: 30 minutes
Video Length: 10:40

Intent

Demonstrate How to Properly Refuse Risk, incorporating the Risk Management Process, 10 Standard Firefighting Orders, and 18 Watchout Situations, as referenced in the Incident Response Pocket Guide (IRPG), PMS 461.

Facilitator Preparation

  • Review the video and module tools. Consider additional activities and discussion questions pertinent to the location and agency.
  • Consider additional activities and discussion questions pertinent to the location and agency.

Facilitating the Discussion 

  • Show the video.
  • Facilitate a small or large group discussion using the activity and discussion questions.
  • Navigate and pause video when necessary to allow for engagement with class.

Conduct Activity

  • Divide the class.
  • Give each group the Discussion Questions, below.
  • Discuss group responses.

Discussion Questions

  1. You should never fight wildfire with any of the 10 Standard Firefighting Orders broken. How many of the 18 Watchout Situations would you feel comfortable working with?
  2. List factors that would change your comfortability with Watchouts being present.
  3. Have you ever felt unsafe with an assignment? Why, and what actions were taken?
  4. Identify other resources you could use to help manage risk.

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2024 Week of Remembrance

Date: June 27, 2024
Contact: 6 Minutes for Safety Subcommittee 

As we approach the 2024 Week of Remembrance (WOR), June 30 to July 6, we dedicate this time to thoughtfully reviewing and recognizing the events of the 2018 Mendocino Complex. As such, this year’s theme of “Learning From the Mendocino Complex” embodies a longstanding hallmark of WOR, honoring through learning.

Throughout the week, our energy will be directed toward fostering generative conversations in briefing rooms and at tailgates.

References:

6 Minutes for Safety - 2024 Week of Remembrance

Wildland Fire Lessons Learned Center

Updated NWCG Wildland Fire Risk and Complexity Assessment, PMS 236

Date: June 24, 2024
Contact: Incident and Position Standards Committee 

The June 2024 update of the NWCG Wildland Fire Risk and Complexity Assessment, PMS 236, is now available to meet the current needs for incident management typing.

The NWCG Wildland Fire Risk and Complexity Assessment should be used to evaluate firefighter safety issues, assess risk, and identify the appropriate incident management organization based on incident complexity. Assessing risk, determining incident complexity, and identifying an appropriate incident management organization is a subjective process based on examining a combination of indicators or factors, which can change over time.

References:

NWCG Wildland Fire Risk and Complexity Assessment, PMS 236

Operations Branch Director (OPBD) Next Gen PTB Available

Date: June 10, 2024
Contact: NWCG Feedback 

The NWCG Position Task Book for Operations Branch Director (OPBD), PMS 311-109 is now available for use within the OPBD position qualification pathway. As part of the transition to Complex Incident Management (CIM), the OPBD Next Gen PTB was developed and the position qualification pathway updated.

More information about the Next Gen PTB format can be found on the NWCG Position Task Book webpage.

References:

Operations Branch Director Position Page

Operations Branch Director Next Gen PTB

NWCG Position Task Books

Updated NWCG Standards for Interagency Incident Business Management, PMS 902

Date: June 5, 2024
Contact: NWCG Incident Business Committee 

The 2024 revision of the NWCG Standards for Interagency Incident Business Management, PMS 902 is now available. The uniform application of interagency incident business management standards is critical to interagency fire operations. PMS 902 assists NWCG agencies in constructively working together to provide effective execution of each agency's incident business management program.

References:

PMS 902