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Wildland Firefighter Type II
FS120

YEAR:

2023-2024

CREDIT HOURS:

3.00

PREREQUISITES:

None

COREQUISITES:

None

COURSE NOTES:

None

CATALOG COURSE DESCRIPTION:

Required training for all personnel prior to certification as a Wildland Firefighter Type 2 under the Wildland Qualifications System (NWCG 310-1); entry level course for all new firefighters and refresher course for veteran firefighters.

HutchCC INSTITUTION-WIDE OUTCOMES:

  1. Demonstrate the ability to think critically and make reasonable judgments by acquiring, analyzing, combining, and evaluating information.
  2. Demonstrate the skills necessary to access and manipulate information through various technological and traditional methods.
  3. Demonstrate effective communication through reading, writing, listening, and speaking.
  4. Demonstrate effective interpersonal and collaborative skills.
  5. Demonstrate effective quantitative-reasoning and computational skills.

AREA OR PROGRAM OUTCOMES

  1. Demonstrate the knowledge, skills, and ability to perform firefighting duties.
  2. Demonstrate the knowledge, skills and ability to perform firefighting safety practices.
  3. Describe common fire service employment requirements and the hiring processes for a firefighter.
  4. Demonstrate communication and interpersonal skills when dealing with emergency service personnel and members of the general public.
  5. Think critically and make reasonable judgments by acquiring, analyzing, combining, and evaluating quantitative and non-quantitative information in order to adequately fulfill the role of a firefighter.
  6. Recognize accepted ethical standards expected of public emergency services.

COURSE OUTCOMES AND COMPETENCIES:

  1. Identify and discuss the three sides of the fire triangle.
    1. List the three sides of the fire triangle.
    2. Describe the effect removing one side of the fire triangle has on fire behavior.
    3. Name and define three methods of heat transfer.
  2. Identify the environmental factors of fuels, weather, and topography that affect the start and spread of wildland fire.
    1. Name the nine parts of a fire.
    2. Name the six basic fuel types
    3. Define the time-lag fuel classification system
    4. Name and define the four major time-lag fuel classifications.
    5. Identify the fuel characteristics that influence the behavior of the fire.
    6. State the effect that temperature and relative humidity have on wild land fire behavior.
    7. State the effect that precipitation has on wild land fire behavior.
    8. Name the common weather conditions present in a stable atmosphere.
    9. Name the common weather conditions present in an unstable atmosphere.
    10. Define aspect and state how it affects fire behavior.
    11. Define slope and state how it affects fire behavior.
  3. Describe the contributing factors that indicate the potential for increased fire behavior that may compromise safety.
    1. Identify common indicators that fire behavior may be increasing.
    2. List seven fire environment factors to be aware of while monitoring fire behavior.
  4. Explain what the LCES (Lookouts, Communications, Escape Routes, Safety Zones)system is and how it relates to the Standard Firefighting Orders.
    1. Define each component of LCES.
    2. State how the four components of LCES work together and help ensure firefighter safety.
    3. State the purpose of the Standard Firefighting Orders.
  5. Construct fireline to required standards using various methods.
    1. Identify the commonly used hand tools for fire line construction.
    2. Demonstrate the proper use of each of the commonly used hand tools and explain each tools strengths and weaknesses.
    3. Describe two kinds of coordinated crew techniques used for fire line construction.
    4. In a small group, construct a fire line utilizing proper techniques.
  6. Strengthen, reinforce, and use holding actions on a fireline.
    1. Demonstrate the proper use of a fusee and driptorch.
    2. State the purpose of a burnout operation for strengthening a fire line.
    3. State two actions other than a burnout that may be used to strengthen a fire line.
    4. Name four threats/hazards to an existing control line when fire is burning inside the control line.
    5. Describe the proper follow-up procedures for a dozer or tractor plow fire line.
    6. State the importance of breaking up and dispersing machine piles and berms adjacent to the control line.
    7. State three factors that determine the amount of additional work required for a water or retardant line.
  7. Extinguish the fire with or without the use of water.
    1. Properly assemble and use a backpack pump.
    2. Identify common hose components and accessories.
    3. State the proper use of each of the common hose components and accessories.
    4. Correctly set up a simple hose lay.
    5. Correctly set up a progressive hose lay.
    6. Describe the proper application of water on a fire.
    7. Describe proper procedures to extinguish a fire without water.
    8. Describe three methods for breaking the fire triangle.
    9. List three suppression techniques and describe their uses.
    10. Describe a systematic method of locating spot fires.
    11. Describe four considerations when patrolling a fire.
  8. Complete assigned tasks in a safe and efficient manner.
    1. Identify the required Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) for a wild land fire assignment.
    2. Identify symptoms of fatigue and methods to help minimize the effects of fatigue on a wild land firefighter.
    3. State the importance of staying hydrated and common symptoms of dehydration.
    4. Describe five safety procedures to follow when working around engines, tractor plows, and dozers.
    5. Describe safety procedures to follow when in an area where retardant/water drops are being made.
    6. List four elements of proper radio use procedures.
    7. Describe three radio trouble shooting practices used to improve radio reception or transmission.
    8. Describe precautions to take when applying water to hot materials and demonstrate proper techniques for doing so.
    9. Identify common safety practices used during personnel transport by various common methods.
    10. Identify personnel safety concerns in wild land/urban interface fires

COURSE ASSESSMENT AND EVALUATION:

1. Unit study guides 2. Unit exercises 3. Unit performance assessments 4. Final examination

ACCOMMODATIONS STATEMENT:

Any student who has a documented disability and wishes to access academic accommodations (per the 1973 Rehabilitation Act and Americans with Disability Act) must contact the HCC Coordinator of Disability Services, at 620-665-3554, or the Student Success Center, Parker Student Union. The student must have appropriate documentation on file before accommodations can be provided.

ACADEMIC HONESTY:

Education requires integrity and respect for HutchCC's institutional values. HutchCC students are required to maintain honesty through a "responsible acquisition, discovery, and application of knowledge" in all academic pursuits. Preserving and upholding academic honesty is the responsibility of Hut chCC students, faculty, administrators and staff.

I. Student Responsibilities

All HutchCC students are required to:

  • Submit all work in all courses without cheating, fabrication, plagiarism, dissimulation, forgery, sabotage, or academic dishonesty as defined below.
  • Provide all academic records such as transcripts and test scores that are free of forgery.
  • Refrain from participating in the academic dishonesty of any person.
  • Use only authorized notes and student aids.
  • Use technology appropriately, including refraining from submitting AI (Artificial Intelligence)-generated work without express written consent from your instructor.
  • Protect the security of passwords/login/privacy/electronic files, and maintain sole individual access for any online course information.

II. Definition of Academic Dishonesty

  • Academic dishonesty is any intentional act, or attempted act, of cheating, fabrication, plagiarism, dissimulation, forgery, or sabotage in academic work.
  • Cheating includes using unauthorized materials of any kind, whether hard copies, online, or electronic, such as unapproved study aids in any academic work, copying another student's work, using an unauthorized "cheat sheet" or device, or purchasing or acquiring an essay online or from another student.
  • Fabrica tion is the invention or falsification of any information or citation in any academic work, such as making up a source, providing an incorrect citation, or misquoting a source.
  • Plagiarism is the representation of words, ideas and other works that are not the student's own as being original to the student. A no n-inclusive list of examples includes work completed by someone else, work generated by an external entity (such as AI), omitting a citation for work used from another source, or borrowing the sequence of ideas, arrangement of material, and/or pattern of thought of work not produced by the student, even though it may be expressed in the student's own words.
  • Dissimulation is the obscuring of a student's own actions with the intention of deceiving others in any academic work, such as fabricating excuses for absences or missed assignments, or feigning attendance.
  • Forgery of academic documents is the unauthorized altering, falsification, misrepresentation, or construction of any academic document, such as changing transcripts, changing grades on papers or on exams which have been returned, forging signatures, manipulating a digital file of academic work, or plagiarizing a translation.
  • Sabotage is any obstruction or attempted obstruction of the academic work of another student, such as impersonating another student, stealing or ruining another student's academic work.
  • Aiding and abetting academic dishonesty is considered as knowingly facilitating any act defined above.
  • Academic honesty violations can also include the omission or falsification of any information on an application for any HutchCC academic program.

III. Sanctions for Academic Dishonesty

Students who violate the Academic Honesty Policy may be subject to academic or administrative consequences.

Instructor Sanctions for Violation:

Students suspected of violating the Academic Honesty Policy may be charged in writing by their instructor and any of the following may apply:

  • Assign Avoiding Plagiarism Bridge Module
  • Receiving written warning that could lead to more severe sanction if a second offense occurs
  • Revising the assignment/work in question for partial credit
  • Voiding work in question without opportunity for make-up
  • Reducing the grade for work in question
  • Lowering the final course grade
  • Failing the work in question

Institutional Sanctions for Violation:

Students charged with academic dishonesty, particularly in instances of repeated violations, may further be subjected to an investigation and any of the following may apply:

  • Instructor recommendation to the Vice President of Academic Affairs (VPAA) to dismiss the student from the course in which the dishonesty occurs
  • Instructor recommendation to the VPAA to dismiss student from the course in which the dishonesty occurs with a grade of 'F." Student will not be allowed to take a 'W' for the course
  • Instructor recommendation to the VPAA that the student be suspended and/or dismissed from the program
  • Student barred from course/program for a set period of time or permanently
  • May be recommended by the instructor (after documented repeated offenses) to the VP AA that the student be placed on probation, suspended and/or dismissed from the institution.

IV. Procedure

  • Instructor will communicate in writing via the student's HutchCC email account and/or LearningZone email account to the student suspected of violating the Academic Honesty Policy.  That communication may include sanction(s). Department Chair will notify the student's academic advisor upon receipt of the Academic Honesty Violation Form.
  • For each violation, the instructor will submit a completed Academic Honesty Violation Form to the Department Chair. Department Chair will notify the student's academic advisor upon receipt of the Academic Honesty Violation form.
  • Should the instructor choose to pursue institutional sanctions, the instruct or shall notify the student in writing via the student's HutchCC email account.  Instructor shall also submit a completed Academic Honesty Violation Form and all prior completed forms regarding said student to the Department Chair and the office of the VPAA with recommendation to proceed with specific Institutional Sanctions. Department Chair will notify the student's academic advisor upon receipt of the Academic Honesty Violation Form.
  • The decision of the VPAA on Institutional Sanction is final. The VPAA will notify the student's academic advisor of any institutional sanctions.

V. Due Process Rights

Students charged with violations of academic honesty have the right of appeal and are assured of due process through the Academic Honesty Appeal process.

Academic Honesty Appeal Process

I. Due Process Rights: Students charged with violations of academic honesty have the right of appeal and are assured of due process through the Academic Honesty Appeal process.

  • If an instructor has recommended course or program dismissal, the student may continue in coursework (provi ding there are no threatening or security behavioral issues) until appeal processes are concluded. However, if an issue has been documented at a partnership location (e.g., clinical sites, secondary institutions, correctional or military facilities), then the student is no longer eligible to continue participation in internships, apprenticeships, and/or clinical-based practice. For clinical sites, this sanction is immediate.

II. Process

If the student disagrees with the charge of a violation of academic honesty, the student has the right to due process as described in the Academic Honesty Appeal process below:

  • If the matter is not resolved upon communicating with the instructor about the violation, the student shall, within five business days of the issuance of the written notice of violation, submit a completed Academic Honesty Appeal Form and supporting documentation to the appropriate department chairperson to initiate an Academic Honesty Appeal.
  • Within two business days of receiving the student's completed Academic Honesty Appeal Form, the Department Chair and VPAA will review and the VPAA will render a decision.
  • Within two business days, a response will be sent to the student's HutchCC email address. The VPAA's decision is final.

INCOMPLETE GRADE:

Instructors may give a student a grade of Incomplete (I) under the following conditions:

  1. The student must initiate the request prior to the time final course grades are submitted to Records.
  2. The request must be made because of an emergency, illness or otherwise unavoidable life-event.
  3. The instructor must agree to the request before a grade of Incomplete can be submitted.
  4. A written contract between the instructor and student, signed by both, will document the work required and date needed to complete course work.
  5. If a student does not complete the course requirements within the time frame established by the instructor, a grade of "F" will be recorded on the student's transcript at the end of the next semester.

HLC ACCREDITATION:

Hutchinson Community College is accredited by the Higher Learning Commission (HLC). The Higher Learning Commission is one of six regional institutional accreditors recognized by the US Department of Education and the Council on Higher Education Accreditation (CHEA).