This is the driving force behind the firefighters actions. If the mission and vision is to fight fire accompanied by an attitude, the tougher it is the better, it sets up certain predictable responses which are not always safe and effective. However if the mission and vision are to win each engagement, then the risk is lowered and CPS training takes hold. The next part of the course centers on basic fire science and exposes misconceptions about how air affects forest fuel. This segment proves that fuel temperature variables are the key to certain predictions.
Special language is taught enabling students to communicate wildfire potential.
The language makes it possible to extract personnel from dangerous situations. The rest of the course is the application of this system on fires of the past. To avoid repeating the errors of the past we must be able to predict the fire behavior event and use different tactics. When we can teach how to better predict past fire behavior, then events on future fires can be predicted and a safe tactical approach can be devised. This is called fire behavior tactics.