First Responder

Builds the foundation for recognizing lithium-ion battery involvement, understanding how incidents develop, and making sound initial decisions. Designed for personnel who may be first to encounter a damaged, failing, or burning battery.

Incident Operations

Moves beyond recognition into incident strategy and tactical considerations, including scene size-up, hazard zones, exposure protection, resource needs, monitoring, decontamination, and ongoing reassessment.

Specialized Focus Areas

Courses can be tailored around the hazards and responsibilities most relevant to the audience, including:

• Electric vehicles and transportation incidents

• Towing, recovery, and post-incident storage

• Residential and consumer battery incidents

• Energy storage systems and BESS

• Public-safety and highway response

• Comprehensive lithium-ion incident response

IN DEVELOPMENT

Command Considerations

A future command-level course focused on strategic decision-making, incident priorities, resource coordination, exposure management, and planning for extended lithium-ion battery incidents.