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Review and Read
This will familiarize you with where specific authorities and guidance documents relative to wildland fire suppression operations. Become familiar with their locations and content.
Review your agency's authorities on the USFS or DOI web page or in Department/Agency Manuals and Handbooks.
Unit 4H, Suppression, Activity 2
Review and Read
This will familiarize you with standards and expectations for wildland fire suppression operations.
Access and review, Interagency Standards for Fire and Aviation Operations, (Red Book), Chapters 1, 2-5, 6, 10-11.
Red Book http://www.nifc.gov/policies/red_book.htm
Unit 4H, Suppression, Activity 3
This will familiarize you with current issues relative to Fire Program Managers and wildland fire suppression operations.
Read the OIG Cover Letter, and the OIG Safety Program Audit, Information Memorandum and Cramer Fire Fatality Reports.
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