Aerie Backcountry Medicine

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Course Information:

RT-130 - Red Card Refresher

Missoula, MT

May 24, 2025

Contact us for course cost.


Overview:
Aerie Backcountry Medicine offers a RT-130 course  for fire personnel to refresher their red card.  The Red Card, officially called an Incident Qualification Card, is an accepted interagency certification that a person is qualified to do the required job when arriving on an incident.

Course Details:
This course is designed to prepare you to operate as a Fireline EMT / Paramedic. The Fireline EMS positions are unique entry-level positions in the wildland fire service that are often asked to operate more independently than most entry-level fire positions. We acknowledge the unique risk this poses if you were to be contracted onto a fire, and so we have built a course to exceed national standards.

This course is completed over the duration of one in-person training day.  This integrates classroom-based discussions and case-studies along with field based work, where participants complete an arduous pack test (see below), fire shelter deployments and other fieldwork.

Prerequisites:
The RT-130 is only for those who have previously held a red card certification. To facilitate a more in-depth classroom/field training session, we may require the following training certificates to be sumitted priort to the RT-130:

• Introduction to ICS (IS-100)
• NIMS: An Introduction (IS-700)
• Human Factors in the Wildland Fire Service (L-180)
• Firefighter Training (S-130)
• Introduction to Wildland Fire Behavior (S-190)


Arduous Pack Test:
This course includes a test to show each firefighter is able to perform arduous duty. That is a 3-mile walk with a 45-pound pack completed in or under 45 minutes.

Cost:
Contact Aerie.  Cost does not include accommodations, food, or any other travel expenses.

Location:
Missoula, MT