FESA 336 - Fire and Emergency Services Management

Fire and emergency service administrative structures and processes. This course prepares students to assume administrative positions within fire and emergency service organizations and examines roles and responsibilities of administrators, management and leadership theory and practices, and common administrative functions.

This course can be applied towards the:

• Fire and Emergency Services Administration (B.S.)
• Fire and Emergency Services Administration Certificate

Textbooks and Materials

Textbooks and materials can be purchased at the CSU Bookstore unless otherwise indicated.

Required

• Harvard Business Review on Leadership
• Managing Fire and Rescue Services (2002)
  Compton, Dennis & Granito, John (Eds)

Instructors

Warren Jones
(970) 475-1117
Warren.Jones@colostate.edu

Ph.D. Education and Human Resource Studies, Colorado State University; M.A. Political Science, Colorado State University; B.Ed. Vocational Education, Colorado State University; A.S. Oklahoma State University.

Jones is the Fire Chief and Emergency Manager for the City of Evans, Colorado. Prior to his service with the City of Evans, he served 27 years with Poudre Fire Authority in Fort Collins, CO. In his over 30 years of fire and emergency services experience, Chief Jones has worked in all areas of the fire service including operations, training, administration, fire prevention and emergency management. He has extensive ICS experience in many ICS positions and as the incident commander of large fires, hazardous materials incidents and natural disasters. He is a member of the Eastern Colorado Type III incident Management Team and is a USFA All Hazard Incident Management Team instructor.