The NVFC will offer its WFAP program at the Essex Fire Department in Essex, MA.

The NVFC will offer its WFAP program at the Mi Wuk Sugar Pine FPD Fire Station in Mi Wuk Village, CA.

Wildfires are a threat to communities across the country, but fire departments can play an important role in mitigating the risks to the community in advance of a wildfire. Wildfire Community Preparedness Day (WCPD) is a campaign that encourages people and organizations everywhere to come together on a single day to take action to raise awareness and reduce wildfire risks. The theme for this year's WCPD, taking place on Saturday, May 3, is Defending the Home Ignition Zone (HIZ). Join this NVFC Roundtable Talk to hear subject matter experts from across the country discuss how to use WCPD to educate your community and learn what other fire departments are doing to get involved to support their community WCPD activities.

Join the NVFC for a Roundtable Talk focused on how fire departments can actively participate in the National Cohesive Wildland Fire Management Strategy, a collaborative effort to address the nation’s wildfire problems. This panel-style discussion will provide a comprehensive overview of the strategy and highlight actionable ways for departments to contribute to wildfire management and resilience efforts. Led by NVFC Wildland Fire Assessment Program Advocates, this session will focus on the objectives of the cohesive strategy, the role of departments, implementation strategies, and available resources to support your involvement. This Roundtable Talk is ideal for department leaders, planners, and other stakeholders involved in wildfire management and community resilience.

When it comes to wildfire mitigation, we're all in this together. This course focuses on community wildfire mitigation effort enhancement through strategic relationship building. Participants will learn how to create workgroups/committees consisting of various stakeholders such as local fire, state forestry, federal forestry, firesafe counsel, office of emergency services, and home owners associations to mitigate wildfire threats. The course will help participants leverage resources to meet the needs of reducing fire risks by networking with government fuels reduction projects, ensuring community wildfire preparedness plans are up to date, and connecting organizations with grant opportunities to fund these efforts. After taking this course, participants will be equipped to organize a committee in their community and leverage resources to create a focused and efficient wildfire mitigation effort.

“Vulnerability” is not just for talking about our feelings! In terms of community risk reduction (CRR), vulnerability is the likelihood that an individual or group will suffer harm or loss from a hazardous situation, environment, or event. CRR specifically defines 5 types of vulnerability as they relate to hazards: human, social, economic, environmental, and political. All CRR models use those vulnerability types to determine high-risk areas in a community, and who is at most risk from the hazards that exist. This course will teach you to apply those vulnerability types to your own community and personalize the risk that wildfire presents for different populations in your response areas. By doing so, you can raise community awareness of the dangers and long-term damages of wildfire, in turn helping your community members to embrace mitigation efforts and protection plans.

This presentation involves an overview of behavioral health awareness for wildland firefighters, with an emphasis on understanding emotional and physical stressors. This course covers communication skills, addiction, depression, PTSD/PTSI, suicide statistics, retirement and creating a behavioral health program.

Each year, the frequency and intensity of wildfires are growing. They are destroying land across the globe and are taking lives in communities and firefighting organizations of every size. In fact, the U.S. Fire Administration reports that between 1990 and 2020, there were 522 firefighters killed while involved in brush, grass, or wildland fire response. In this webinar, presenter Bill Arsenault will provide a look into the wildfire landscape of the past 30 years, what has changed for the fire service, and what we must do to be more effective in our preparedness and response.

This webinar will provide an overview of actions for an Initial Attack IC to consider when responding to an emerging, potentially large wildfire. Local, state, and national mobilization processes and responsibilities will also be discussed. The NVFC has partnered with FirstNet®, Built with AT&T to bring this webinar topic to you. FirstNet is the only network built with and for America's first responders—including volunteer firefighters. With the nation's largest coverage footprint, first responders get prioritized access to the network, never competing with commercial traffic. Learn more at FirstNet.com/fire This webinar is sponsored by Aladtec. Powered by TCP Software, Aladtec is an online employee scheduling system created specifically to meet the challenging 24/7 shift rotations of mission-critical public safety agencies. Easily accessible anywhere at any time, Aladtec allows you to quickly schedule simple to complex shift rotations, track licenses/certifications, and communicate instantly with individuals or groups. Learn more.

The Wildland Fire Assessment Program (WFAP) is a joint effort by the U.S. Forest Service and the NVFC to provide departments with training on how to properly conduct assessments for homes located in the wildland-urban interface (WUI). This is the first program targeted to volunteers that specifically prepares them to evaluate a home and provide residents with recommendations to protect their property from wildfires in order to make their community more fire-adapted.