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Saturday, September 06, 2008
Virtual flames: New firefighter recruits train via online learning - Chris Merris, Jackson Hole Star-Tribune
To help make basic wildfire classroom training more accessible to these departments, an interagency group of local, state and federal agencies has, this summer, begun offering online classes on wildland fire behavior and on basic strategies and tactics for fighting wildfires. The courses were developed cooperatively by the National Wildfire Coordinating Group and the U.S. Fire Administration's National Fire Academy. The goal was to make the information available to new recruits, wherever they are, when they need it, said Don Smurthwaite, spokesman for the National Interagency Fire Center in Boise. Officials also hope the distance-learning approach will help others who are interested -- including people living in or at the edges of forests -- to learn the most effective approaches to wildfire management, said Frank Carroll, a spokesman for the Black Hills National Forest.
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