Complex Incident Management Course

As budget cuts for CalFire are in the news today they host a National training for Inident management Teams at their training facility in Ione CA. 6 teams from several states (48 students in all) are honing their skills to handle the most complex of incidents. Their training is preparing them for responding to all risks not just wildfires. Already the have been taskes with huricane response in a simulation exercise. They also were challanged with a team exercise called the "spider web" where the goal was to get the team through the spider web with out touching the web.



Not only are there 48 students there is a CADRE made up of some of the best at what they do from Washingtom to Maine to Flordia to California and many states in between.

 California budget: Cuts to wildland firefighting teams loom

The proposed budget that Gov. Jerry Brown rolled out this week contains significant changes to California's environment, from closing some state parks to dropping a program that pays big landowners to keep their property undeveloped.

But perhaps none may prove to be more significant than Brown's recommendation for major changes to the way California battles wildfires.
His plan calls for reducing the number of firefighters on CalFire engine crews from four to three, putting them back to staffing levels that existed before massive wildfires charred the state in 2003. It also would shift to cities and counties a significant amount of firefighting responsibility that CalFire now oversees.

More aout the course

CIMC - Complex Incident Management Course

Hours: 40

Course Description:
CIMC - Complex Incident Management Course
Using classroom lecture and simulated incidents the student will understand the role and function of an incident management team, the applicability of management principles to the incident management job, and the special considerations of incident management within geographic areas of the nation.
Objectives:
The Complex Incident Management Course (CIMC) is a partnership between the National Association of State Foresters and the U.S. Forest Service to provide a national incident management training program that addresses multi-jurisdictional and all-hazard issues, including wildfire, that confront state emergency responders.
Course objectives are to train command staff positions to function as qualified state incident management teams who are able to assist their state forestry organizations and state emergency departments in the management of large or highly complex wildfires and other all hazard incidents. The focus of the course is to better prepare team members to address the unique and challenging management.

Smokey sure is glad there are trainers out there who provide this type of training and is also glad that there are men and women who have dedicated their life to protection the public and natural resources of our great nation.

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