Yes. To receive a certificate, you must be present in the classroom. All of the courses depend on student involvement in discussion and exercises.

When you register, you should receive immediate confirmation online.

Registration opens 30 days before the course begins and lasts until 14 days before the course begins. After that, registrations are conditional.

You can register up to the date the course begins, including as a walk-in at the beginning of instruction. However, there is no guarantee there will be room in the class. You may need to make up prerequisite work, as we will not be able to get it to you in time.

If fewer than 15 students sign up for a course during the regular registration period, the course may be cancelled. If it is, you will be notified by email. Each situation will be evaluated on its own merits, and the number of applicants is but one of the factors. In any event, the Bay Area UASI will make the final decision. If it is cancelled, applicants will be notified 10 days in advance.

Contact the instructor for directions on how to proceed.

Each instructor will provide a cell phone number at the beginning of instruction. Also, instructor email addresses are provided with their biographical summaries.

When you signed up, we received your email address. About 10 days before the training, the pre-course material will be distributed electronically to the students. You will also receive other course information at that time.

You will find a complete course description by going to https://www.nwcg.gov/publications, opening the Field Manager’s Course Guide, and looking up your course.

Generally speaking, yes. Without the prerequisites you cannot receive a certificate from the Office of the State Fire Marshal. If there is room in the class, an instructor may allow you to conditionally attend realizing that you will not be at the same level as the other students. The instructor cannot make special accommodations to bring you up to the same level.

We have changed the prerequisites for the finance training; the I-300 is no longer required. The other courses are all available online (see the following question).

Several of these courses are available online. They can be taken at home, as well as at work. They each take two or three hours to complete, but it can be done right at your desk. The certificate comes by return email when you take the final exam, which can be taken until you pass. You do not have to complete these courses before you sign up; just complete them before the training.

IS-100 Introduction to the Incident Command System (https://training.fema.gov/is/courseoverview.aspx?code=IS-100.c)
IS-200.b ICS for Single Resources and Initial Action Incidents (https://training.fema.gov/is/courseoverview.aspx?code=IS-200.b)
IS-700.b An Introduction to the National Incident Management System (https://training.fema.gov/is/courseoverview.aspx?code=IS-700.b)
IS-701 NIMS Multiagency Coordination System (MACS) Course (http://training.fema.gov/EMIWeb/IS/is701.asp)
IS-775 EOC Management and Operations  (https://training.fema.gov/is/courseoverview.aspx?code=IS-775)
IS-800.c National Response Framework, An Introduction  (https://training.fema.gov/is/courseoverview.aspx?code=IS-800.c)

In addition, there are many other web-based courses at https://training.fema.gov/is/crslist.aspx.

You can take the online courses on any computer, at home or at work. They are available at any time of the day on any day of the week.

Take the prerequisite course first, if possible.

The course instruction is free. There will be coffee and water in the classroom, and all instructional materials are provided. You will be responsible for your own lunch each day, as well as any travel cost associated with training.

Each course will be offered once at a Bay Area location. If demand is sufficient, then a second offering of the course will be made at a different Bay Area location. If demand for the first course is low and the course is cancelled, then a third offering of a more popular course will be made instead.

The training is not open to the general public. Public agency personnel and some volunteer agency personnel who work in law enforcement, fire protection, public health, public works, and emergency services or who have emergency responsibilities in an Emergency Operations Center or as part of an Incident Management Team can attend.

If you successfully complete the training, you will receive a course completion certificate for the California Office of the State Fire Marshal. They maintain a database containing all of the certified Incident Command System training.

Please indicate on the registration what your needs are, and we will do our best to accommodate your situation.

The training material and the certificates come from the fire community; however, the training will be all risk, focused primarily on a potential major earthquake in the Bay Area.

Yes. The training will fulfill the needs of personnel with EOC assignments and meets SEMS requirements.

Unless a course does not receive adequate enrollment in the first offering, all courses will be offered twice. Courses that receive very low enrollment will be dropped from the program and replaced by courses with high enrollment.