Wildland firefighting S-190 UPDATED ACTUAL Questions and CORRECT Answers
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Wildland firefighting S-190
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Wildland Firefighting S-190
Wildland firefighting S-190 UPDATED
ACTUAL Questions and CORRECT
Answers
Origin - CORRECT ANSWER- Where the fire started and or where it's going.
Head - CORRECT ANSWER- Greatest rate of spread. Moves intensely. May have more
than one head.
Fingers - CORRECT ANSWER- Long narrow strips of fi...
Wildland firefighting S-190 UPDATED
ACTUAL Questions and CORRECT
Answers
Origin - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Where the fire started and or where it's going.
Head - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Greatest rate of spread. Moves intensely. May have more
than one head.
Fingers - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Long narrow strips of fire that break off of the main
fire. Caused by mixed fuels, natural features dividing the fire.
Pocket - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Unaffected area between the main fire and finger.
Perimeter - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Outer boundary of burning or burnt area.
Rear/ heel - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Opposite to the head of the fire. Close to the point of
origin.
Flanks - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Sides of a wildland fire. May change to the head or
fingers might form because of fuel.
Islands - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Unburned areas inside the perimeter.
Wildland fires - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Unplanned or unwanted fires.
Fireline - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Part of the control line. Dug to mineral soil. Where
firefighting activities take place.
Spot fires - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Smalls fires burning beyond main fire boundary.
, Convection column - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Rising hot air/ gas above the fire source.
Slopover/ Breakover - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- When fire crosses a control line
The green - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Unburned area close to the fire where live or dead
fuels are. NOT SAFE
Live fuels - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Living plants, high moisture vegetation, low moisture
content
Dead fuels - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Where moisture is only governed by only
atmospheric moisture. Ie: relative humidity and precipitation.
The Black - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Area where fire has already moved through.
Surface/ Ground Fuel - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Fuel that contacts the ground. Ex: leafs,
dead branches, bark, tree cones.
Aerial fuels - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Fuel suspended from the ground. Ex: branches,
twigs, bark and vines.
Black unsafe - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Steep terrain, hot spots, falling snags, exposure
from adjacent Unburned fuels.
Reburns - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Wind shift or a fire moves fast and doesn't burn
everything.
Fire behavior - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Manner in which the fire reacts to various fuels,
weather and topography.
Fire spread - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Movement of the fire.
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