Basic Wildland Firefighting Training Exam All Possible Questions and Answers with complete solution

an unplanned or unwanted natural or human-caused fire, or a prescribed fire that threatens to escape its bounds -Wildfire purposely starting a fire that puts a home or others at risk - ACA 5-38-302 agency responsible for forest fire supression -Forestry Commission ACA 5-38-310 becomes a violation -When a fire crosses onto another perons property Time, location, owner, agent -When notifying AFC of a controlled burn give the following Damages are doubled -In a civil action where a person's property does not need permission of the landowner - Fire fighters working under direction of AFC on private property combustion - The act of burning is called fuel, heat, oxygen -This must be present for combustion to occur radiation, convection, conduction - Fire spreads by three heat transfer methods Radiant heat - This will push heat ahead of the fire pulling moisture and making fuel easy to ignite Convection -this will pull oxygen in from all sides pushing heated air upward making more oxygen for fire (causes embers to create spot fires) Conduction - heat transfers through root systemsFuel, weather, topography -Environmental influences on fires small/light fuels - sage grass, light brush, vines large/heavy fuels -hardwood and softwood trees relative humidity - Most important of environmental factors and first thing to check when fighting wildfires more humidity -a fire burns slower with less humidity - high wind and dryness