S-215: Fire Operations in the Wildland-Urban Interface

This is an instructor-led course intended to be presented at the local level. Instructional units include firefighter safety in the interface, managing human factors in the interface, pre-incident planning, sizeup and initial strategy, structure triage, structure protection overview, tactics in the interface, tactical operations and resource use in the interface, action assessment, plan update, and after action review.

Cost: $250

Course Hours: 25 hours

Prerequisites: S-290

Date: April 20-May 1, 2026

LIVE online sessions dates and times: Tuesday April 21 10:00-12:00 PT, Wednesday April 22 10:00-13:00 PT, Tuesday April 28 10:00-12:00 PT, Wednesday April 29 10:00-13:00 PT

This course is being offered by the Student of Fire Initiative at the University of Idaho. If you have any questions about the course, please email studentoffire@uidaho.edu.

The Student of Fire Initiative at the University of Idaho is offering 4 workshops this Spring:  S-290, M-410, RX-310, and S -215. All courses are administered online through the Wildland Fire Learning Portal. Their online training is robust and engaging, but they recognize that online training is not for everyone. If you do not learn well online, you are encouraged to seek out in-person courses.

For more information, please check out their new website: https://studentoffire.org/ If you want to set up a special session for any of these courses or request the development of other courses, you can reach out to the Student of Fire Initiative at studentoffire@uidaho.edu. EACH class has an associated class for credit at the University of Idaho. Email the Student of Fire Initiative if you are interested in registering for the University of Idaho class and completing some additional work to receive credit.