By Philip Wilkerson, Captain/PR Officer
Winnfield Fire Department

On April 29 and 30 the Winnfield Fire Department along with personnel from the Winn Parish Fire District #3, Winn OEP, and Louisiana State Guard attended a National Incident Management Systems (NIMS) 300 class at CLTCC Huey P. Long Campus in Winnfield.  Instructor Ryan Spiller from GOSHEP taught the class. Everyone in the class passed the post testing. 

Again on May 27 and 28 the Winnfield Fire Department along with personnel from the Winn Parish Fire District #3, Winn OEP, and Louisiana State Guard attended a NIMS 400 class at CLTCC in Winnfield. Everyone in the class passed this class as well. Instructors Ryan Spiller and Wes Anders taught this class. 

Officers gave their congratulations and thanks to all attendees for furthering their education to better serve the citizens of Winnfield and surrounding areas in the state of Louisiana. Special thanks went out to CLTCC for allowing use of their facilities for these classes.

The Nims 300 course describes how the NIMS Command and Management component supports the management of expanding incidents and the incident/event management process for expanding incidents and supervisors as prescribed by ICS. It also implements the incident management process on a simulated Type 3 incident and allows students to learn how to develop an Incident Action Plan for a simulated incident.

The Nims 400 target audience for this course is senior personnel who are expected to perform in a management capacity in an Area Command or Multi-agency Coordination Entity. This course provides training on and resources for personnel who require advanced application of the Incident Command System (ICS). This course expands upon information covered in ICS-100 through ICS-300 courses. This course will include but not be limited to: major and/or complex incident/event management, area command, and multi-agency coordination. This course is designed to provide overall management skills rather than tactical expertise.