Principles of Fire Behavior: Interactive Multimedia Training

An intermediate fire behaviour training course developed for a Canadian audience. It covers fire environment, topography, fuel, weather, extreme fire behaviour, and assessing fire behaviour, and takes eight-to-ten hours to complete. The course is intended for those involved in the effective and efficient management of wildfire, from initial attack crews to upper management. Printable manager’s and user’s guides are included on the CD-ROM as are detailed installation instructions. The system requirements for the CD-ROM are as follows: Pentium 100 or better, Windows 95, minimum of 16 MB of total RAM memory and 100 MB of free hard drive space, colour SVGA monitor, Video for Windows software (included), 16-bit sound card, 8x or better CD-ROM and its driver. The CD-ROM is not designed to be run off a network accessed by many. Each CD must reside locally in each user’s workstation because of the large demand for bandwidth in accessing the video and audio files. However, there are options for storing student data on the local workstation or on the network for access by an administrator.