2024/2025 NWCG Leadership Campaign – The Roots of Wildland Fire Leadership
Date: August 28, 2024
Contact: Leadership Committee
NWCG is excited to announce the 2024/2025 NWCG Leadership Campaign, themed "The Roots of Wildland Fire Leadership." This campaign provides an opportunity for personnel to engage in leadership development activities.
The campaign features four modules that can be completed at any time between May 2024 and May 2025.
The Leadership Committee promotes and enables the development of leaders in the wildland fire service by providing educational and leadership development opportunities.
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2024/2025 NWCG Leadership Campaign – The Roots of Wildland Fire Leadership
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Date: March 31, 2025
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Airtanker Base Operations Unit
The updated NWCG Standards for Airtanker Base Operations (SABO), PMS 508 standardizes operations and procedures at interagency airtanker bases to ensure safe, efficient, and effective operations in support of interagency goals and objectives.
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Date: March 14, 2025
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Joe Schindel at mschindel@blm.gov
The 2025 Core Component Module Package for RT-130, Wildland Fire Safety Training Annual Refresher (WFSTAR) and the 2024 Fire Year in Review are now available on the NWCG website. The 2025 Core Component Module Package provides all content needed to deliver RT-130.
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Date: March 12, 2025
Contact: Wildland Urban Interface Mitigation Committee
The NWCG Wildland Urban Interface Mitigation Field Guide, PMS 053 provides mitigation practitioners at all experience levels with recommendations on the most effective and efficient ways to accomplish mitigation work in communities at risk to wildfire damage or destruction. The content in this guide was written in coordination with the NWCG Standards for Mitigation in the Wildland Urban Interface, PMS 052.
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NWCG Wildland Urban Interface Mitigation Field Guide, PMS 053
Date: March 11, 2025
Contact: Fire Use Subcommittee
Wildland Fire Module Unit
The NWCG Standards for Wildland Fire Module Operations, PMS 430 standardizes procedures and expectations for Wildland Fire Modules (WFMs). These standards are to be used by staff, supervisors, specialists, and technicians for planning, administering, and conducting WFM operations. These standards will also be used as a measure of WFM qualifications, capabilities, and expected performance, for both Type 1 and Type 2 WFMs.