(1) All firewardens may perform the duties prescribed in (3) on private, state, or state-protected federal lands.

(2) To qualify as a firewarden, a person must possess knowledge of wildland fires and be able to prevent, detect, suppress, or investigate wildland fires, and to coordinate, or in any manner facilitate, the furtherance of the fire policy provided for in 76-13-115, MCA.

(3) In addition to the duties prescribed in 76-13-116, MCA, a firewarden is responsible for carrying out the following duties:

(a) perform as a liaison between local, state, and federal agencies, incident management teams, and suppression forces as relates to wildland fire;

(b) coordinate training, prevention, detection, suppression, or mitigation of wildland fire activities between local, state, and federally recognized fire-protection agencies; and

(c) assist in determining the origin and cause of wildland fires and in recovering wildland fire-suppression costs and, if necessary, assist with the criminal prosecution of wildland fire-related criminal offenses.