Command Courses
Fire Command 1A: Command Principles for Company Officers:
Designed For: First-in incident commander and company officers
Description: This course provides instruction and simulation time pertaining to the
initial decision and action processes at a working fire. Topics include the fire officer,
fire behavior, fireground resources,operations and management.
Prerequisites: I-200
Certification: Fire Officer
Hours: 40
Class Size: 40
Restrictions: None
Fire Command 1B: Incident Management for Company Officers:
Designed For: First-in incident commander and company officers
Description: This course provides the student with information on tactics, strategies, and
scene management for multi-casualty incidents, hazardous materials incidents, and wildland
fires. Each student also has the opportunity to increase his or her knowledge and skills by
handling initial operations at these types of incidents through simulation and class activities.
Prerequisites: I-200, Fire Command 1A
Certification: Fire Officer
Hours: 40
Class Size: 40
Restrictions: None
Fire Command 1C: I-Zone Fire Fighting for Company Officers:
Designed For: Fire fighters, company officers, and chief officers with limited wildland experience
Description: This course is designed around the responsibilities of the Company Officer at a wildland/urban
interface incident. It will bring the structural Company Officer out of the city and into the urban/interface;
in other words, from his or her comfort zone into an area that could very well be quite unfamiliar.
Prerequisites: I-200, Fire Command 1A
Certification: Fire Officer
Hours: 40
Class Size: 25
Restrictions: None
Fire Command 2A: Command Tactics at Major Fires:
Designed For: Chief Officers, company officers, and training officers
Description: This course prepares the officer to use management techniques and the Incident
Command System when commanding multiple alarms or large suppression forces.
Prerequisites: I-300, Fire Command 1A
Certification: Chief Officer
Hours: 40
Class Size: 40
Restrictions: This course requires a site with adequate materials and equipment to deliver the
training according to the course outline.
Fire Command 2B: Management of Major Hazardous Materials
Designed For: Chief Officers, company officers, and training officers
Description: This course provides Incident Commanders with the skills and competency necessary to mitigate
an incident, initiate remedial action, and ensure the restoration of normal services with a comprehensive
resource management approach. The course is also intended to bring the student to the standard of competency
established for On-Scene Commander by OSHA's Final Rule 29 CFR 1910.120 and NFPA 472. Students will
participate in simulated incident scenarios and justify their actions in a mock civil court setting.
Prerequisites: I-300, Fire Command 1B, Fire Command 2A
Certification: Chief Officer
Hours: 40
Class Size: 40
Restrictions: None
Fire Command 2C: High-rise Fire Fighting Tactics:
Designed For: Chief Officers and experienced company officers
Description: This course is approached from a system basis and is applied to both small and large high-rise
buildings. Topics include prefire planning, building inventory, problem identification, ventilation methods,
water supply, elevators, life safety, strategy and tactics, application of the ICS, and specific responsibilities.
Case studies and simulation are used.
Prerequisites: I-300, Fire Command 2A
Certification: Chief Officer
Hours: 40
Class Size: 40
Restrictions: This course requires a site with adequate materials and equipment to deliver the training according
to the course outline.
Fire Command 2D: Planning for Large Scale Disasters:
Designed For: Chief Officers, company officers, and planners
Description: Key topics include: Principles of disaster planning and management, fire service emergency plans,
emergency operations centers, case studies of various natural and man-made disasters, roles of local, state and
federal OES and emergency management agencies, discussion of multi-hazard planning techniques, ICS and
SEMS concepts,and principles of exercising emergency management staffs.
Prerequisites: I-300, Fire Command 2A
Certification: Chief Officer
Hours: 40
Class Size: 40
Restrictions: None
Fire Command 2E: Wildland Fire Fighting Tactics:
Designed For: Fire officers who have command responsibilities at wildland fires
Description: This course contains such topics as California's wildland fire problem, wildland fire safety, weather
effects, wildland fuels, wildland fire behavior, initial attack methods, using support equipment, using topographic
maps, strategy and tactics, and air attack operations. Involves class participation and simulation.
Prerequisites: I-300, Fire Command 1C, Fire Command 2A
Certification: Chief Officer
Hours: 40
Class Size: 40
Restrictions: None
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