S-290, Intermediate Wildland Fire Behavior Training Course
Ventura Training Center, Camarillo, CA
August 5th-8th, 2024
S-290 is a classroom-based 32-hour skills course designed to meet training requirements to work in the operation section of the Incident Command System. Preference was given to Tribal peoples, PBA members and contacts, people pursuing the CARX Burn Boss certification, locals, and students.
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S-290 Intermediate Fire Behavior Training Objectives:
- Identify and describe the characteristics of fuels, weather, and topography that influence wildland fire behavior.
- Describe the interaction of fuels, weather, and topography on wildland fire behavior, Fireline tactics, and safety.
- Describe the causes of extreme fire behavior conditions (long range spotting, crowning, and fire whirls) that develop due to weather, fuels, and/or topography.
- Interpret, communicate, apply, and document wildland fire behavior and weather information.
| Date |
ITEM |
|---|---|
| 8/5 | Introductions/Leaders Intent/ Course Introduction
The Fire Environment Fuels Basic Weather Processes Temperature and Humidity Relationships |
| 8/6 |
Atmospheric Stability Wind Systems |
| 8/7 |
Keeping Current with the Weather Fuel Moisture Extreme Wildland Fire Behavior |
| 8/8 |
Gauging Fire Behavior and Guiding Fireline Decisions Review Case Studies Final Exam |
Trainers:
Woody Bouska, President, SURE-FIRE Training Inc
The lead instructor, Woody Bouska, is the president of SURE-FIRE Training Inc., a corporation that specializes in delivering high quality professional wildfire consulting, analysis, planning, mitigation and education services. Woody has over 40 years of experience in the wildland fire service and is a wildfire risk analysis and mitigation specialist. Woody has extensive experience working with various agencies and organizations planning, and conducting, prescribed burns and wildland fuels management projects. Woody is also a registered California State Fire Training Instructor who provides a variety of consulting and training services for fire departments, land management agencies and other government and corporate organizations throughout the world. He received his formal education from UC Davis in Wildlife Biology.
David Gomberg, Senior Forecaster and Fire Program Manager, National Weather Service Oxnard-NOAA
David Gomberg is the Senior Forecaster and Fire Weather Program Manager at National Weather Service Oxnard. David brings over 30 years of experience as a meteorologist and 20 years of experience as the Fire Weather Program Manager. David holds a Masters Degree in Atmospheric Sciences from UCLA and currently resides in Ventura County.
