Over ten years ago, a group of
emergency responders from varied response disciplines, founded the Colorado
Wildfire Academy
and Great Plains Wildfire
College realizing the
need to
provide National Wildfire Coordinating Group (NWCG), Incident Command
System
(ICS), and other quality emergency management courses.
Since this inception these colleges and
academies have delivered training to over 15,000 students. After the
events of September 11th,
2001, the
board has constantly modified the curriculum to meet the ever changing
requirements of fire, emergency medical, law enforcement, and other
emergency
management agencies and personnel. The
value of incident management training has been reinforced numerous
times with unprecedented
fire seasons, the Columbia Shuttle Recovery and Hurricane’s Ivan,
Katrina and
Rita respectively. To address the future
training needs of emergency management, the board voted to adopt a
single
moniker to express our long-term commitment to a diverse curriculum of
quality
training. The
Colorado Wildland Fire and Incident Management Academy (CWFIMA)
will
become the over–all umbrella of the Academy and College.
We believe to sustain the quality and
diversity of education, the CWFIMA more correctly describes the basis
of our
updated mission.
Our Mission:
Promote safety and integrate the
efforts of local, State, Federal, Tribal, private-sector, and
non-governmental
emergency response organizations by utilizing the Incident Command
System and
facilitating a national approach to domestic incident management by
providing
both the cognitive and hands-on incident management knowledge,
instructed by
the nations brightest authorities.
The next Summer Academy will be held at Western State College May-June, 2008 in Gunnison.
The next Winter Academy will be
held January, 2009 in Sterling. The
registration is not active, however they can be sent by FAX, phone or
e-mail prior to the web registration activation; Summer 2008
information
has been posted on the brochure ONLY. Please submit registrations prior
to April 1, 2008. The Colorado Wildland Fire & Incident Management
Academy has
established the Paul
Gleason Scholarship in Paul's memory. See award
criteria and nomination information (due dates are March 15 and
November 1 for the following Academies).
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