Wildland Firefighter Apprenticeship Program

Apprenticeship Positions are currently being flown on www.usajobs.gov

Here are the announcement numbers:

25-FIRE-P1R2389-WFAP-345DH

25-FIRE-P1R5-WFAP-345DH

25-FIRE-P1R14-WFAP-345DH

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Check out this article showcasing one of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Fire apprentices.

Taking Flight to Fight Wildland Fire | U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service Dangling from a rope 150 feet below a helicopter isn’t for the faint-hearted; but for some, being suspended in the air is an exhilarating experience. Brandon Williams, a wildland firefighter apprentice at San Luis National Wildlife Refuge Complex in California, lives for such a thrill. In March 20...

AA92 Apprentices last week completed S-230 and had a choice of S-215, Fire Operations in the Wildland Urban Interface or S-236, Heavy Equipment Boss.

S-230 Crew Boss course includes operational leadership, preparation and mobilization, assignment preparation, risk management, entrapment avoidance, safety and tactics, offline duties, demobilization, and post-incident responsibilities. S-215 Wildland Urban Interface course has a focus on structure protection, hazard mitigation, and fire containment lines. The Apprentices go through sand table scenarios that incorporate small group decision making. The course also has a field day involving multiple structure triage. Those who went through S-236, Heavy Equipment Boss (HEQB) course were able to learn about many different types of heavy equipment, equipment pre-inspection, their capabilities, limitations, contracts, and got an awesome opportunity to operate a Forest Service dozer. The field day had to be changed due to weather, but a big thank you to the operators for being very flexible. The Klamath NF and Plumas NF were very generous for bringing their respective equipment to the WFAP in McClellan, CA.

BA 92 Apprentices completed a Staff Ride review, FI-110, Lessons Learned, and had a choice between D-110 Expanded Dispatch Recorder or L-280 Followership to Leadership.

The FI-110 primary emphasis of this course is to teach sound wildland fire observations and origin scene protection practices that enable first responders to a wildland fire scene to perform proper origin scene protection procedures. L-280 includes leadership values and principles, transition challenges for new leaders, situational leadership, team cohesion factors, ethical decision-making, and after action review techniques. D-110 were able to learn the structure of the expanded dispatch organization, description of resource ordering and status using process, and the importance of the EDRC having effective communication skills and working relationships. The course gives a general overview of Interagency Resource Ordering Capability (IROC).