Company Officer 2E- Wildland Incident Operations

This course provides information on evaluating and reporting incident conditions, analyzing incident needs, developing and implementing a plan of action to deploy incident resources, completing all operations to suppress a wildland fire, establishing an incident command post, creating an incident action plan, and completing incident records and reports.  

Enrollment student enrollment completions in 2022-2023 are approximately 20, with steady increases projected in the future.  The department has begun surveying and outreach, as well as marketing in the Northern California region.  Due to the fact that this course, along with all of the other Company Officer courses offered by Yuba College, will be offered in a hybrid modality, staff believes that students will be drawn from across the state.

The skills certificate prepares students with technical knowledge to successfully advance their education and training in the area of wildland incident operations.  Students who take this course are generally those that are looking to promote to first line supervisor or those that have already been promoted.

The program requirements include the following:

1. Assemble information regarding travel, route, assignment, time needed and point of contact from a dispatch agency when responded to a wildland incident and provide an initial wildland report of conditions.

2. Analyze and size-up a wildland incident and formulate an incident action plan.  Apply objectives, strategies and tactics to mitigate a wildland emergency based on wildland incident conditions, progress, changes in fuels, topography, weather, fire behavior, and significant events.

3. Describe methods of communicating wildland conditions to a supervisor and adjoining personnel.

4. Outline appropriate medical treatment, notifications and reports for an injured wildland firefighter.

5. Determine appropriate fire suppression actions when deploying resources ensuring safety.

6. Summarize communication needs regarding process updates, changes in conditions, fire behavior, and other significant events.

7. Analyze incident needs, ordering additional resources and releasing resources, identify need for logistical services and support.

8. Explain transfer of command, mop-up, and extinguishment procedures.

9. Identify completion of wildland suppression operations and the process to return resources to service.

10. Support CICCS-based personnel qualification system.

11. Defend need for conducting personnel performance evaluations after a wildland incident.

12. Justify the need to maintain wildland incident records and documenting required information, including personnel time and equipment use records.

13. Prepare final incident reports and detail procedures for responding to requests for incident information.