Apply on-line now for Colorado Firecamp's upcoming S-130/190 Basic Firefighter classes:

• Sep. 16-19, 2010

• Oct. 14-17, 2010

• Nov. 11-14, 2010

• Dec. 9-12, 2010

• Jan. 6-9, 2011

• Feb. 3-6, 2011

• Mar. 3-6, 2011

• Apr. 14-17, 2011

• May 12-15, 2011

• June 2-5, 2011
  

(1:00 pm Thu.-5:00 pm Sun.)

Cost: $390 ($425 starting 2011) includes tuition, books, meals & lodging. The pack test is offered on Saturday or Sunday of each class. Agency sponsorship is not required. Apply online now.

Bus transportation from downtown Denver to Salida costs $24 one-way on Arrow/Black Hills Stage Lines. For shuttle between Denver International Airport and downtown Denver, the RTD SkyRide AF runs hourly for $10 each way. Firecamp staff will pick-up and drop-off students at the bus stop in Salida.

Information about finding a job as a wildland firefighter.

South Canyon Fire witness statement — Tony Petrilli, 1994

Introduction to ICS

• Lesson 1: Welcome / ICS Overview
• Lesson 2: ICS Features & Principles
• Lesson 3: ICS Organization: Part I
• Lesson 4: ICS Organization: Part II

S-130 Instructor Evaluation

Firefighter 2 Tasks

Interagency Media Guidelines for Wildland Fires—March, 2004

S-130/190 Firefighter Training
and Introduction to Wildland Fire Behavior

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“Firefighters have to be strong enough to use their own minds all the time and brave enough to be afraid.  If you find yourself working with a crew that is not afraid of fire, find one that is.  First-year crew members need to be told that rules get broken, that safety is not always first.  They need to be told that their incident commander can get them killed without losing his or her job.  It is an absolute fraud to tell them less.”

— Ken Weaver, father of Devin Weaver who died at the Thirtymile Fire

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If this guy can be a wildland firefighter,
why can't you???

LIFE Magazine photo of Sen. Richard Nixon in 1961 spraying down the shake shingle roof of his house. Who says "stay-and-defend" is an Austrailian invention?

Google has digitized the complete LIFE archive of images, including 200 pictures from Helena, Montana at the time of the Mann Gulch Fire in 1949.