A. To ensure that ranchers and landowners in this state are adequately equipped to protect their own property and neighboring property from forest and range fires, the Arizona department of forestry and fire management shall develop a program to train individual or groups of ranchers and landowners to detect, prevent and suppress forest and range fires within this state.

B. This state is not liable for any claim based on a rancher’s or landowner’s exercise or performance of, or failure to exercise or perform, any fire detection, prevention or suppression activity that the landowner or rancher was trained to exercise or perform under subsection A of this section.