The national wildfire coordinating group nwcg was established in 1976 through a memorandum of understanding between the department of agriculture and the department of the interior. Nwcg standards for wildland fire position qualifications, pms 3101. Examples include wildland fire, structural fire, oil spill, search and rescue, hazardous material, and an emergency or nonemergency planned or unplanned event. Nwcg standards for wildland fire position qualifications, pms 3101 pdf supplemental documents url. Nwcg standards for wildland fire position qualifications. The nwcg standards for wildland fire position qualifications establishes minimum nwcg position qualification standards for training, experience, physical fitness, and currency for national mobilization to wildland fire incidents the nwcg member agencies develop these requirements and agree to meet them when providing resources for national wildland fire mobilization. The memorandum defined the function and purpose of nwcg as follows. Once you have joined an organization, you can begin training to become a qualified firefighter. This new system specifically provides guidance and implements the state of colorado allhazards. S445 incident training specialist precourse work historical. Examples include wildland fire, structural fire, oil spill, search and rescue, hazardous material, and an emergency or nonemergency planned or. The local office is responsible for selecting trainees, proper use of task books, and certification of trainees, see appendix a of the nwcg wildland and prescribed fire qualification system guide, pms 3101, for further information.
The nwcg standards for wildland fire position qualifications establishes minimum nwcg position qualification standards for training, experience, physical fitness, and currency for national mobilization to wildland fire incidents. O task can be completed in any situation classroom, simulation, daily job, incident, prescribed fire, etc. Iqcs is an interagency information system that tracks responder incident qualifications for the federal partners of the national wildfire coordinating group nwcg, the department of interior doi bureaus, the united states air force and the united states army. This qualifications system is not meant to replace or supersede current ics task book programs or the pms 3101 standards set by nwcg. Department name firefighter full name first, middle, last.
To open a task book, the fire department chief or training coordinator of the volunteer fire department needs to send an email to the sdwf training specialist to request that a task book be opened. All organizations must adhere to, at minimum, the states guidelines for training and qualifications which is the national wildfire coordinating groups nwcg wildland fire qualification system guide pms 3101. Introduction the material in this precourse work is designed to be used as a self study orientation guide to the incident training specialist course s445. Nwcg position task books ptbs are a key component of the qualification process for specified nwcg positions. The nwcg member agencies develop these requirements and agree to meet them when. Nwcg member agencies maintain agencyspecific position task books.
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