S-130 WILDLAND EXAMS SCRIPT QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔To be avoided, if possible. - ✔✔Downhill fireline.
✔✔Are you down with the guidelines for downhill fireline construction and hose lays?
All of these are TRUE guidelines except.
- Don't attempt these procedures when a fire is present directly below the proposed
starting point.
- Don't construct a fireline in or adjacent to a chimney or chute that could burn out while
your crew is in the vicinity.
- Always use an undercut for downhill lines.
- Always reference your IRPG for downhill line construction guidelines. - ✔✔- Always
use an undercut for downhill lines.
✔✔Place these tools in the correct order from leader to clean-up. - ✔✔1. Chainsaw
2. Brush hooks
3. Shovel
✔✔Identify THREE advantages of using Class A foam in your wet line.
- Better wetting of fine fuels.
- Contains more-intense fires.
- Controls tall flame lengths in heavy fuels.
- Extends your water supply.
- Clearly shows the lines location.
- Reduces manpower requirements. - ✔✔- Better wetting of fine fuels.
- Extends your water supply.
- Clearly shows line location.
✔✔Slow-moving heavy equipment is vulnerable to being overrun by rapidly advancing
fire.
Identify THREE safety precautions to prevent this occurrence.
- Pay close attention to a fire's behavior.
- Approach heavy equipment from the rear to warn operator.
- Watch out for debris or burning items dislodged downslope.
- Work far in advance of equipment to provide reconnaissance.
- Keep an open path to your escape route.
- Be prepared to withdraw into your safety zones.
- Have equipment develop staging areas. - ✔✔- Pay close attention to a fire's behavior.
- Keep an open path to your escape route.
, - Be prepared to withdraw into safety zones.
✔✔What is the safety guideline when you're working on a ground crew in the trees with
heavy equipment nearby?
- Stay back twice the height of surrounding trees.
- Signal the operator to attract the operator's attention.
- Get assigned to a different ground crew until heavy equipment is done with their tasks.
- Radio the operator to inform him of your location. - ✔✔- Stay back twice the height of
surrounding trees.
✔✔Identify TWO true statements about tactics associated with cutting control line with
mechanized equipment.
- Requires effective communication between operators and ground personnel.
- Involves using the lead piece of heavy equipment to cut down to mineral soil.
- Normally takes place farther from a fire's edge than hand-built lines.
- Requires no follow-up by hand crews.
- Always involves relocating flammable material inside the control line. - ✔✔- Requires
effective communication between operators and ground personnel.
- Normally takes place father from a fire's edge than hand-built lines.
✔✔A retardant drop is on it's way and you've been caught in the open. You've made
sure your helmet and goggles are on tight.
Identify FOUR additional steps you need to take.
- Spread your feet apart for stability.
- Curl into the fetal position to minimize any retardant coating.
- Radio the base to inform them of your situation.
- Leave any extra equipment at your feet.
- Lie face down with your head toward the approaching aircraft.
- Hold your hand tools to the side of your body.
- Hold your helmet or chin strap in place. - ✔✔- Spread your feet apart for stability.
- Lie face down with your head toward the approaching aircraft.
- Hold your hand tools to the side of your body.
- Hold your helmet or chin strap in place.
✔✔Identify the THREE main classes of radios.
- Very high frequency. (VHF)
- Ultra low frequency. (ULF)
- Medium low frequency.
- Median frequency.
- Ultra high frequency. (UHF)
ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔To be avoided, if possible. - ✔✔Downhill fireline.
✔✔Are you down with the guidelines for downhill fireline construction and hose lays?
All of these are TRUE guidelines except.
- Don't attempt these procedures when a fire is present directly below the proposed
starting point.
- Don't construct a fireline in or adjacent to a chimney or chute that could burn out while
your crew is in the vicinity.
- Always use an undercut for downhill lines.
- Always reference your IRPG for downhill line construction guidelines. - ✔✔- Always
use an undercut for downhill lines.
✔✔Place these tools in the correct order from leader to clean-up. - ✔✔1. Chainsaw
2. Brush hooks
3. Shovel
✔✔Identify THREE advantages of using Class A foam in your wet line.
- Better wetting of fine fuels.
- Contains more-intense fires.
- Controls tall flame lengths in heavy fuels.
- Extends your water supply.
- Clearly shows the lines location.
- Reduces manpower requirements. - ✔✔- Better wetting of fine fuels.
- Extends your water supply.
- Clearly shows line location.
✔✔Slow-moving heavy equipment is vulnerable to being overrun by rapidly advancing
fire.
Identify THREE safety precautions to prevent this occurrence.
- Pay close attention to a fire's behavior.
- Approach heavy equipment from the rear to warn operator.
- Watch out for debris or burning items dislodged downslope.
- Work far in advance of equipment to provide reconnaissance.
- Keep an open path to your escape route.
- Be prepared to withdraw into your safety zones.
- Have equipment develop staging areas. - ✔✔- Pay close attention to a fire's behavior.
- Keep an open path to your escape route.
, - Be prepared to withdraw into safety zones.
✔✔What is the safety guideline when you're working on a ground crew in the trees with
heavy equipment nearby?
- Stay back twice the height of surrounding trees.
- Signal the operator to attract the operator's attention.
- Get assigned to a different ground crew until heavy equipment is done with their tasks.
- Radio the operator to inform him of your location. - ✔✔- Stay back twice the height of
surrounding trees.
✔✔Identify TWO true statements about tactics associated with cutting control line with
mechanized equipment.
- Requires effective communication between operators and ground personnel.
- Involves using the lead piece of heavy equipment to cut down to mineral soil.
- Normally takes place farther from a fire's edge than hand-built lines.
- Requires no follow-up by hand crews.
- Always involves relocating flammable material inside the control line. - ✔✔- Requires
effective communication between operators and ground personnel.
- Normally takes place father from a fire's edge than hand-built lines.
✔✔A retardant drop is on it's way and you've been caught in the open. You've made
sure your helmet and goggles are on tight.
Identify FOUR additional steps you need to take.
- Spread your feet apart for stability.
- Curl into the fetal position to minimize any retardant coating.
- Radio the base to inform them of your situation.
- Leave any extra equipment at your feet.
- Lie face down with your head toward the approaching aircraft.
- Hold your hand tools to the side of your body.
- Hold your helmet or chin strap in place. - ✔✔- Spread your feet apart for stability.
- Lie face down with your head toward the approaching aircraft.
- Hold your hand tools to the side of your body.
- Hold your helmet or chin strap in place.
✔✔Identify the THREE main classes of radios.
- Very high frequency. (VHF)
- Ultra low frequency. (ULF)
- Medium low frequency.
- Median frequency.
- Ultra high frequency. (UHF)
