Certified Medical Incident Technician: Wildland Fire

Certified Medical Incident Technician: Wildland Fire

The MIT: Wildland Fire course is built around the medical realities of wildland fire operations — not adapted from a street medicine curriculum. Over 5 days you will develop the skills to provide immediate care in the austere, high-risk environment that is a working fire line.

This is a hands-on, high-intensity program. Instructors have operational wildland fire experience. What gets taught is what actually happens on fires.

What You'll Learn

• TECC (Tactical Emergency Casualty Care) applied to wildland fire
• Patient assessment under fire-ground conditions
• Hemorrhage control: tourniquets, wound packing, junctional hemorrhage
• Airway management with limited equipment
• Burn assessment and management
• Smoke inhalation: recognition and field management
• Patient packaging and preparation for transport
• Coordination with air medical and ground EMS assets
• Entrapment and burn-over medical response
• Communicating with patients and medical staff under operational conditions

Who Should Attend

Wildland fire personnel at any level — from crew members to overhead — who want to be prepared to provide effective care when someone goes down on the line. Particularly valuable for safety officers, crew supervisors, and anyone with medical responsibilities on a fire assignment.

Prerequisites

No prior medical training required. Basic fire line experience recommended.