This 2-day course empowers the student to select applicable fire-adapted community mitigation strategies to include in a Community Wildfire Protection Plan (CWPP) for the local community. This course is designed to identify mitigation strategies in each of the 4 wildland urban interface hazard attribute environments as a critical step in the development of a CWPP.
Pre-course materials and course syllabus
Instructions to Download Student Manual: | https://apps.usfa.fema.gov/ax/pcm/BYOD_0638.pdf PDF 109KB |
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Course Syllabus: | https://apps.usfa.fema.gov/ax/syll/syllabus_w0638.pdf PDF 125KB |
The target audience for this course may include, but not be limited to, the following:
- Fire and emergency service representatives.
- Community leaders/decision-makers.
- Commissioners, elected officials and other local policymakers.
- Code officials: building, planning, etc.
- Environmental groups.
- Land managers and foresters.
- Other key local stakeholders.
- Incident Command System (ICS)-100-level and ICS-200-level training. Preferred courses are Q0462 and Q0463, available through NFA Online. Chief's signature attests that the applicant has completed this required training.
- Successful completion of "Wildland Urban Interface: Fire-Adapted Communities — Introduction and Leadership, Course I" (F/W/O0637).