Module 1

 The course covers the following:

 

• Introduction
• Wildfire facts
• Backburning
• Nature of fire
• Fuel moisture content
• How different fuels burn
• Extinguishing fire
• Slurry

 

 

 

Module 2

 The course covers the following:

• What is a wildfire?
• Fire spread
• Protection from radiation
• Conduction
• Convection
• Fire intensity
• Moisture content
• Curing
• Flame height
• Bushfires
• Direct contact

 

Module 3

 The course covers the following:

• Safety on the fireground
• Job safety
• Specific wildfire hazards
• Heat exhaustion
• Heat stroke
• Smoke
• Fatigue
• Disorientation
• Environmental
• Taking refuge
• Watchout
• Fire spreading

 

 

 

Module 4

 The course covers the following:

• Bushfires in Australia
• Impact of bushfires
• Fire danger rating
• History
• Spot-fires
• Fire whirls

 

 

Module 5

 The course covers the following:

• Equipment
• Bushfire PPE
• Extinguishing equipment
• Hand tools
• General rules for using tools
• Axe
• Rake hoe
• Sharpening tools
• Handling tools
• The knapsack
• Safety procedures
• Fire beaters
• Use of beaters
• Pumps
• Hose fittings
• Adaptors
• Hose types

 

 

Module 6

 The course covers the following:

• Common extinguishing agents
• Wetting agents
• Earth
• Retardants
• Foams
• What is foam effective on?
• What is foam not effective on?
• A class foams
• Fire suppressant foams
• Fluorine free foams
• Long term retardants
• Protein foams
• Synthetic foams
• High expansion foams
• Foam concentrates
• Polar solvents
• Foam proportioning

 

 

Module 7

 The course covers the following:

• Branches, nozzles and pump operations
• Foam pump operation
• Medium and high expansion foam generators
• Air aspirating foam nozzles
• Smooth bore nozzles
• Fog nozzles
• Discharge devices
• Class A foam application
• Class B foam application
• Sweep on or roll off methods
• Bounce off method
• Rain-down (Lobbing method)
• Foam application techniques
• Compatibility of foams
• Water supply considerations
• High expansion foam for basements
• Foam storage and shipping
• Stacking
• Foam and the environment
• Heavy equipment
• Aerial water bombing

 

 

Module 8

 The course covers the following:

• Fire behaviour
• Fuel
• Categories of fire
• Hilly/mountainous areas
• Flat grasslands
• Fuel size and quantity
• Arrangement of fuel
• Dryness of fuel
• The process of curing
• Weather and wildfires
• Temperature
• Relative humidity
• Wind speed
• Effects of wind on bushfires

 

 

Module 9

 The course covers the following:

• Climate change
• Carbon offset
• Carbon farming
• What is the ERF auction?
• Terrain and wildfires
• Slope angle
• Uphill
• Downhill
• Aspect
• Fire as a management tool
• Prescribed wildfires
• Forest wildfires
• Scrub wildfires
• Grass wildfires
• Types of fires
• Implications for firefighters

 

 

Module 10

 The course covers the following:

• Responding to wildfire
• Plan of attack
• Preparing to respond
• Brigade activities
• Call out procedures
• Proceeding to the fire
• Initial observation
• Sizing up the fire
• Evidence of cause
• Safe route
• Locating the wildfire
• Local knowledge
• Map reading
• Indicators of fire
• Observations on route to wildfire
• Suppressing the fire
• Methods of creating a fire break

 

 

 

Module 11

 The course covers the following:

 

• Removing oxygen
• Water
• Wetting agents
• Class A foam
• Class B foam
• Application of foam
• Plan of attack
• Offensive strategies
• Direct attack
• Parallel attack
• Indirect attack
• Defensive strategies
• Advantages and disadvantages of strategies

 

 

 

Module 12

 The course covers the following:

• A control line
• Control line tips
• Control line using hand tools
• The step up method
• The one lick method
• Factors affecting the construction of a fire line
• Following the path of least resistance
• Avoiding steep slopes
• Cutting across existing fire edges
• Using existing fire breaks
• Mopping up
• Patrolling the perimeter
• Patrolling duties
• Working as part of a team

 

Module 13

 The course covers the following:

 

• Fire out declaration
• Backburning
• Types of patterns
• Risks of backburning
• Disadvantages of backburning
• Blackening out
• Communication on fire-ground
• Agency liaison
• Management
• Attacking the flanks
• Impact of wildfires
• The fire danger rating
• Bushfire prone land
• Building on bush fire prone land
• The BAL rating
• Bushfire shutters
• Bushfire sprinkler

 

 

 

Module 14

 The course covers the following:

• Surviving a wildfire when trapped in a vehicle
• Actions to take
• Surviving a wildfire on foot
• Living in wildfire/bushfire prone area
• Understanding wildfire warnings
• Advice
• All clear
• Preparing your home
• Landscaping
• How wildfires destroy houses
• Ember attack
• Radiation
• Wind
• Sheltering during a wildfire
• Actively protecting your home
• Emotional impact
• Where to go as a last resort

 

 

Module 15

 The course covers the following:

• Regional management
• South Australia
• New South Wales
• Western Australia
• Seasonality
• Designated bushfire prone area
• Bushfire prone vegetation
• Bushfire attack levels
• Building standards on these lands
• Factors affecting the BAL
• Type of ventilation
• Distance to ventilation
• The slope