Wildland firefighting: training is important

This video clip that I have embedded provides a quick overview of wildland fire training crew training sponsored by the Oregon Department of Forestry.

I am not a wildland firefighter, nor will I be, so I can not speak from personal experience on the matter of training. Nor can I speak to any State and/or region specific differences among training courses. As I understand it, some of the training is nationally mandated, with some leeway for State and/or regional specifics. For example, issues concerning how to stay safe are important to wildland firefighters everywhere.

But I suspect that there is enough similarity that the above video provides those of us who can not experience the training first hand to get an idea of what such training involves. So, it is in this spirit that I offer this video.

i was curious about the type of training offered by the NJ Forest Fire Service, and two of the Section website that I go to provide some answers, The NJFFS Division A Section 2 website has a training and information page.

Two of the publications referred to on the NJFFS Division A Section 2 website are the Yellow firefighter's Pocket Guide aka Incident Response Pocket Guide and the Fireline Handbook.

The crew info page found on the NJFFS Division B Section 10 includes a listing of NJFFS sponsored training courses.