Equipment Operator Fire Safety
&
Fire Attack Procedures
IT IS SUGGESTED THAT YOU SHOULD HAVE COMPLETED OUR PREVIOUS COURSE;
MODULE ONE
EQUIPMENT OPERATOR WILDFIRE OPERATIONS AWARENESS
OR;
Have completed an equivalent course
UNDER CONSTRUCTION
MODULE TWO
Equipment Operator in the Wildland Fire Environment
Module Two
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Chapter 1 - Basic Considerations
Lessons 1 - 7
- 1 - Heavy Equipment Varieties
- 2 - Inspecting Equipment to be Hired
- 3 - Operating Cost Considerations
- 3 - General Equipment Concerns
- 4 - Specific Equipment Uses
- 5 - Building the Fireline / Guard or Fuel Break
- 6 - Equipment and the I.C.S. (Incident Command System)
- 7 - Legal Stuff - the law, regulations, polices
Chapter 2 - Fire Entrapment Avoidance &
Safety Precautions
Lessons 1 - 7
Chapter 3 - Risk Management & The Human Factor
Lessons 1 - 5
Chapter 4 - Review & Short Quiz
- Lesson 1 - Safety Review
- Short Quiz
MODULE THREE - Fire Entrapment Avoidance & Safety
MODULE FOUR - Risk Management & The Human Factor
Lesson 1 Lesson 2 Lesson 3 Lesson 4 Lesson 5 Lesson 6 Lesson 7 Lesson 8
Chapter 1 - Basic Considerations
Lesson 1 - Heavy Equipment Varieties
(mobile and requires at least one person to operate)
This course will touch on some of the various kinds of equipment that may be used during the course of fighting a forest, brush or grass fire.
- Bulldozer, Crawler /Tractor, Caterpiller Tractor
- Excavator, Hoe, / Track-Hoe, Backhoe,
- Skidders, Skidder Tanker
- Farm tractor with accessories (i.e. plough, disc, harrow, rake) (I have slowed a grass fire just by running the tractor around it - wheel tracks flattened grass)
- Water Tender, Tankers or Tank Truck (The I.C.S. program considers a Tanker as an airborne unit)
Note: It is not usual to include farm tractors and water tank trucks in a heavy equipment category. However, we do include them in this course because these kinds of equipment are also used to assist in fire containment, control and suppression actions.
Personal (operators) will operate under the supervision of an Equipment Supervisor. Operators are not often "attached" to any specific ground crew.
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