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Instructors Raymond James and Colleen Ross

Whether you're responding to wildfire, planning prescribed burns, or working in fuels management, understanding fire behaviour is essential for making sound decisions and communicating effectively on the ground.

After eight years of delivering S-390 with the BC Wildfire Service, I’ve rebuilt the course using the hard lessons and successes from those years and beyond. It’s built for the real work fire practitioners face, from the pace of initial attack and the grind of wildfire suppression to the precision of controlled fire and the planning behind FireSmart. This version keeps the theory but makes it work in the field, so you can read the Red Book with purpose, write burn (and non-burn) prescriptions that hold up in action, predict the key fire behaviour outputs that matter, and apply fire behaviour principles in the moment.

This is fire behaviour for professionals, taught by people who work in fire.

At successful completion of this course, participants will have met the following learning outcomes under the Canadian Forest Fire Behaviour Prediction (FBP) System:

1. Identify and describe the characteristics of fuels, weather, and topography that influence fire behaviour.

2. Describe the interaction of fuels, weather, and topography on fire behaviour in wildfire, prescribed fire, fuels management and safety.

3. Interpret, communicate, apply, and document fire behaviour and weather information.

4. Demonstrate the use of weather tools and Red Book to determine primary outputs and fire behaviour predictions.

5. Recognize the FBP Fuel Type Descriptions and unique fire behaviour and effects for each type.

6. Apply the information to develop safe and effective fire management decisions, e.g., fuels management, prescribed fire, suppression.

Two days. Minimum of 12 to a maximum 20 students. Course comes with a Red Book and Student Workbook.