Service Fire

Will Knowlton

*** **** ****** ** *****, UT *****

Phone: 479-***-**** E-Mail: **********@***.***

Objective

My overall objective for my fire career is to one day be a FMO for the Forest Service, Park Service, or BLM.

Experience

U.S. Forest Service (Forestry Tech., Fire Engine Operator)

May 2010 to present

Initial Attack Engine Module

Fuels Projects (Remove invasive species and hazard trees)

Prescribed Fire

Fought Wildland Fire

Fully Maintained Chainsaws and Handtools

Lone Peak Conservation Center (Fire Tech. 1)

June 2009 to August 2009

Initial Attack Handcrew

Fuels Project (Reduce tree stand density to promote new growth and fire breaks)

Fought Wildfire

Fully Maintained Chainsaws and Handtools

Pea Ridge National Military Park (Lead Laborer and Bio. Tech.)

May 2005 to May 2009

Supervisor (WUI and YCC crews)

Nationally Available Type II Handcrew

Helped Plan Prescribed Fire

Fought Wildland Fire

Managed Fire Cache

Operated Fire Engine

Fully Maintained Chainsaws and Handtools

Taught Fire Classes

GIS Survey

Education

Northwest Arkansas Community College

2006-2009

I attended a structural fire academy to obtain knowledge of fire behavior and tactics

in the structural realm. I became fully certified to fight structure fire in the process.

Firefighter Type 1

Firefighter Type 2

HAZWOPER

Wildland Fire Schools

2006 to present

I attend Wildland Fire Schools whenever possible to further my knowledge and skills

to be a better and safer firefighter, not just for myself but for the rest of my crew and

those around me.

Type 2 Firefighter

Type 1 Firefighter (Trainee)

Faller A

Faller B

Helicopter Crewmember (Trainee)

Incident Commander Type 5 (Trainee)

ATV Operator

Skills

Computer Based-

Microsoft Word 2003

Microsoft Excel 2003

Microsoft Access 2003

Microsoft Power Point 2003

SMIS (to document accidents at work)

Apple newspaper program.

Lab Skills-

Water Sampling

o Conducted experiment in school science fair to determine how clean city water is

compared to other water sources. I collected samples from a city water source, rural

water source, well, spring fed pond, and a creek. I then took the samples to a lab

owned by Tyson Inc. to check them for number of bacterial colonies, E. Coli, and pH

level. We used lab equipment to test, incubate, and then analyze these samples.

o Conducted yearly water samples at a National Park to analyze annual water

quality levels

Microscopes

Centrifuge

Scales

Tools-

GPS equipment (handheld GPS unit and GIS programs such as ArcGIS)

Surveying equipment (transit and surveying laser unit)

Chainsaws

Shovels

Rakes

Mcleods

Pulaski’s

Axes

Handsaws

Posthole Diggers

Crowbars

Wrenches

Ratchets

Pneumatic Ratchets

Chisels

Boats

Pneumatic Chisels Cars (manual or auto

Backpack Blowers transmission)

Drip torches, Trucks (requiring a

Class B CDL and/or tanker

Rope

endorsements, manual or

Knots

auto transmission)

Ladders

Hay Rakes

Fire Hoses

Plows

Extinguishers

Planters

Fusee

Drills

Files

Disks

Jumper Cables

Harrows

Welders (MIG and Stick),

Cultivators

Post Drivers

Tree Terminator

Compasses

Stump Grinder

Tree Inclinometer

Grapples

Tree Densitometer

Pallet Forks

Tree DBH tape

Front and Rear Bucket

Kestrel Handheld Weather Stations

Loaders

Sling Sychrometers

Brush Hogs

Plasma Cutters

Lawn Mowers (push and

Oxyacetylene Torch

riding),

Type I, IV, V, and VII Fire

Machinery-

Engines

Tractors (John Deere Models: 700 series, 1000 series, 4000 series, 6000 series

Mark III Pumps

8000 series)

Bobcat (T300)

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