Overview
Forestry Services In Our Communities
Saskatchewan First Nations Emergency Management provides forest firefighting training services to all First Nations communities in Saskatchewan. Due to the remote areas needed to be accessed, proper training and preparation for combating forest fires are essential to our success.
Training Forest Firefighters
To ensure that all emergency services personnel and volunteers are equipped to fight fires in the forested regions of our province, we provide extensive workshops and training. In these programs, we work through both classroom and active exercises that task participants with gaining familiarity with the equipment and terrain that they will be engaging with during an emergency fire situation. Through both of these practices, we can prepare firefighters in our communities with the knowledge and understanding they need to effectively and efficiently combat fires.
Taking firefighters through courses designed to reflect real-world engagements is important to ensure that a community’s emergency responders are capable of preventing the spread of wildfires, containing and mitigating the damage they bring. Learning how to operate the machinery and tools they will use, how to properly utilize their personal protective equipment, and how fires behave in a forest area are all vital lessons. These resources go a long way in ensuring our emergency responders can keep themselves safe while also protecting the safety of nearby communities.
Contact us to learn more about our firefighter training and fire safety workshops.
What Training We Provide
Type 3 Crew Member (OW 200)
Type 3 Crew Unit Leader (OW 300)
Ground Ignition
Type 2 New Higher
Type 2 CIFFC (Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Centre)
Chainsaw Safety and Operation (OW 324)
Preparing Wildfire Fighters
Understanding the equipment used to combat fires is only as valuable as knowing how a fire spreads and, more importantly, how to stop it from spreading. Over the years, SFNEM has investigated several forest fires in a variety of terrains throughout Saskatchewan. We have the ability to share the lessons that we’ve learned and pair them with standardized programming provided by the Government. This strengthens the applicable information that our trained firefighters can walk away with from our courses—taking it with them as they look to mitigating the damage done by wildfires.
Fire Safety, FireSmart
Wildfires can start in several ways. They can be the result of natural weather patterns and they can be caused by human factors. Spending time training communities in proper fire mitigation and handling goes a long way in preventing wildfires brought on by human negligence. Through the FireSmart program, we educate individuals on how they can appropriately manage forest fires by striking a balance between the natural role it has and the preservation of safety, protection of property and economic impact in our communities.