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Welcome to the website of the National Wildfire Coordination Group's (NWCG) Training Working Team (TWT). The TWT manages the NWCG training curricula program; recommends for approval the Wildland Fire curriculum; oversees NWCG course revisions; recommends to NWCG the course development and format standards; assures all training materials developed by NWCG meet the Course Development and Format Standards; and provides guidance to other teams on the development process and standards.
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Update on New Prescribed Fire Courses
(10/3/07)
As a result of a joint decision by the NWCG and Fire Use Working Team, RX-300- Prescribed Fire Burn Boss, was broken into two courses: RX-341- Prescribed Fire Plan Preparation, and RX-301- Prescribed Fire Implementation.
RX-301 builds on knowledge learned during RX-341, but RX-341 is not a prerequisite to RX-301 since neither will be required in the PMS 310-1. It will be recommended that people take both RX-341 and RX-301 (in that order).
Some federal agencies currently require RX-300 and may change the requirement based on the two new courses. For clarification on agency policy please ask your agency Training Working Team representatives.
Anyone who has taken RX-300 does not need to take either of the new courses. The new courses will be published in 2008 and at that point RX-300 will become obsolete. The Field Managers Course Guide and the PMS 310-1 will reflect the new course changes when applicable.
Both IQCS and IQS have been alerted to the change in courses and both systems should accept the new courses.
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