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FIRE BOX TRAINING
     Primary Objective


Using "hands-on" instructional techniques, the Firebox contains materials and lessons designed to enable certified instructors to teach about Wildfire - its nature, value and potential - with community based groups of all kinds.

This project is an effort to support Wildfire education and enhance awareness of risk within the Western United States Rocky Mountain Plains Region. The program addresses Wildfire as a natural force of change within rural and urban interface areas, developed regions that border wild lands.

Whenever possible, these materials are to be used interactively - games, activities, discussion, experimentation, independent study and inquiry are the name of the game!

We believe these methods to be the hottest way to teach, because people remember 90% of what they do and only 10% of what they hear!

For more information, visit the GARNA Web site.


TWELVE HOT TOPICS

  1. Fire in My Back Yard

    Explores Wildfire as it applies to the Western Plains regions, east of the Rocky Mountains; explores climate influences, fire prone species, ecological mapping, life zone risk analysis.


  2. Fuelish Ideas or Why Do Things Burn?

    Advantages of fire and its essential role in life cycle of plants and animals within the region, history of fire, spark exploration. (US fire statistics)


  3. Forest Health & Fire

    Effective forest management techniques, managed fires, sustainable forest maintenance, and assessment activities to define forest health.


  4. Burning Health Issues... or The Prescribed Burn

    Real life scenarios for determining prescribed burns, procedures and follow up; forester's plan of action, concerns from citizens, property owners, environmentalists and emergency agencies.


  5. How to Create Defensible Space

    "How To" segment uses individual dioramas to allow the student to create defensible space model to create optimal, fire-safe landscaping and property designs.


  6. "Risky" Business

    Risk as it applies to living in a Wildfire Red Zone for home owners including insurance coverage, firefighter tips, neighborhood watch strategies, evacuation designs, fire fighter triage criteria.


  7. Smokey´s New Approach

    Changing philosophy about fire as a natural force in forestry management, Yellowstone Fire of 1988 and "let it burn" models.


  8. Fire History in the Rocky Mountain Region

    Fire impact on various regions of the Colorado Rockies, urban/rural interface influences, short and long term effects fire events have had on the area over the last 100 years.


  9. Fire Science

    Physics of fire, science behind fire fighting strategies, demonstration of fire fighting gear and technique, safety procedures in the field during a burn.


  10. Creating a Community Fire Plan

    Community fire prevention assessment strategies, checklists, role playing and action plans.


  11. Fire Safe Planning

    Fire awareness and effective planning for developers, community planners and home builders; landscaping building materials, site locations, and evacuation models.


  12. Fire Talk - Moving from Words to Action

    Problem solving forum; Wildfire issues that go beyond the kit activities.
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Training targets ages: K through Adult

We provide certification and training sessions
for fire management professionals, educators
and volunteers.

For additional information,
contact Jim Mesite.





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