Wednesday, June 20, 2012

2012 Western Wildland Fire Academy

The VDOF will be  conducting a Western Wildland Fire Academy at Camp Bethel in Botetourt County September 27 through 30.  Camp Bethel is located at Exit 156 off I-81 near Troutville, VA.  

Registration for classes will begin on July 9th.  The VDOF website will have more information soon. 

The offerings for the academy are as follows:

2012 Camp Bethel Wildfire Academy
Course
27-Sep28-Sep29-Sep30-Sep
S-130/190 Firefighter Training/ Intro to Fire Behavior  
X
X
S-131 Firefighter, Type I  
X
 
S-133 Look Up, Lookk Down, Look Around   
X
S-211 Portable Pumps

X
X
X
S-212 Wildland Fire Chainsaws
X
X
X
X
S-215 Fire Operations in the Wildland/ Urban Interface
X
X
X
X
S-230 Crew Boss (Single Resource)

X
X
X