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Capital Area Interagency Wildfire Academy - RX-410: Smoke Management Techniques (B2025)

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Brief Description
RX-410, Smoke Management Techniques
Full Description
This course leads students through the ecological and historical role of fire, characteristics of smoke and the health, safety and visibility impacts of smoke. Other topics include public relations, legal requirements, meteorology, fuel consumption, smoke production dispersion modeling, and operational smoke management strategies. This course is designed to be interactive in nature. It contains a panel discussion, several exercises designed to facilitate group and class participation and case studies from a variety of fuel types and political challenges. The pre-course work assignment is designed to familiarize students with the NWCG Smoke Management Guide for Prescribed Fire, PMS 420-2, and air quality regulations that impact prescribed fire programs.

Objective

The overall objective of this course is to provide land managers with the knowledge to manage smoke and reduce its impacts on public health and welfare. Given existing and potential air quality regulations, political and social sensitivities, students will be able to:

-Predict, manage, and monitor prescribed fire smoke.
-Describe the legal, professional, and ethical reasons for managing smoke.
-Describe the roles of federal, state, and local agencies and organizations involved with and affected by smoke from prescribed fire.

*Students should have a background in prescribed fire planning, implementing, monitoring, permitting or smoke/air regulating.*
Training Dates
10/07/2025 - 10/10/2025
Prerequisites
Pre-course work completion
Registration Dates
07/28/2025 - 10/06/2025
Available Seats
6
Hours
34h 0m
Fee
$150.00
Training Location
Camp Swift
856 FM 2336 (Gate 5)
McDade, TX  78650
Directions to Location
When turning into Gate 5 from FM 2336, proceed through the gate to the marked parking areas. Check-In will have signage outside and be in the first portable building along the left side of the roadway into camp.
Reporting Instructions
Camp Swift National Guard Training Center - Gate 5
850 FM 2336
McDade, TX 78650

Class times:  0800-1700 every day (unless otherwise specified by the instructor)

Please report to Check-In before your first class begins.  Check-In opens at 0630 each day.  Students need only check in once, even when registered for more than one class.
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For any questions, please contact academyregistrar@tfs.tamu.edu.
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