Wildland firefighting TRAINING 2025
|MOST COMMON QUESTIONS WITH CORRECTLY
VERIFIED ANSWERS|ALREADY A+
GRADED|GUARANTEED PASS
Anchor Point - An advantageous location, usually a barrier to fire spread, from which to
start constructing a fire line.
The anchor point is used to minimize the chance of being flanked by the fire while the line is
being constructed.
Flanking Fire Suppression - Attacking a fire by working along the flanks either
simultaneously or successively from a less active or anchor point and endeavoring to connect
two lines at the head
Grass Fire - Is any fire in which the predominant fuel is grass or grass-like.
Head of a fire - The most rapidly spreading portion of a fire's perimeter, usually to the
leeward or up slope
Flash Fuels - Highly combustible fine fuels such as grass, leaves, draped pine needles,
fern, tree moss and some kinds of slash, which ignite readily and are consumed rapidly when
dry.
Rear of a fire - That portion of a fire spreading directly into the wind or down slope; that
portion of a fire edge opposite the head; slowest spreading portion of a fire edge; also called
heel of a fire.
Three elements of the fire triangle. - Fuel, Air, Heat.
Fuel (to burn); Air (to supply oxygen for the flame); Heat (to start & continue the combustion
process)
Three methods of heat transfer. - Radiation, Convection, Conduction.
, Radiation - Think of radiant heat as a ray or wave. Example: Radiant heat warms you as
you stand close to a campfire or in the sunlight.
Radiant heat can dry surrounding fuels and sometimes ignite them
Convection - Think of convection as a smoke column above a fire. Convection occurs
when lighter warm air moves upward. The hot gases and embers, which compose the smoke
column, can dry and ignite other fuels.
Conduction - Heat is moved from one fuel source to another through direct contact.
6 (major) Fuel Types - • Grass
• Grass - Shrub
• Shrub
• Timber - Understory
• Timber Litter
• Slash - Blowdown
A simple definition of FUEL is any burnable (combustible) material. - Such as: live and/or
dead plant material.
Houses, sheds, etc., can also be fuels.
Fuels are a source of energy that drives the fire.
Ground Fuels - all combustible materials lying beneath the surface. - • Deep duff
• Tree roots
• Rotten buried logs, other organic material.
Surface Fuels - all combustible materials lying on or immediately above the ground. - •
Needles or Leaves
• Duff (decayed organic matter on the forest floor)
• Grass
|MOST COMMON QUESTIONS WITH CORRECTLY
VERIFIED ANSWERS|ALREADY A+
GRADED|GUARANTEED PASS
Anchor Point - An advantageous location, usually a barrier to fire spread, from which to
start constructing a fire line.
The anchor point is used to minimize the chance of being flanked by the fire while the line is
being constructed.
Flanking Fire Suppression - Attacking a fire by working along the flanks either
simultaneously or successively from a less active or anchor point and endeavoring to connect
two lines at the head
Grass Fire - Is any fire in which the predominant fuel is grass or grass-like.
Head of a fire - The most rapidly spreading portion of a fire's perimeter, usually to the
leeward or up slope
Flash Fuels - Highly combustible fine fuels such as grass, leaves, draped pine needles,
fern, tree moss and some kinds of slash, which ignite readily and are consumed rapidly when
dry.
Rear of a fire - That portion of a fire spreading directly into the wind or down slope; that
portion of a fire edge opposite the head; slowest spreading portion of a fire edge; also called
heel of a fire.
Three elements of the fire triangle. - Fuel, Air, Heat.
Fuel (to burn); Air (to supply oxygen for the flame); Heat (to start & continue the combustion
process)
Three methods of heat transfer. - Radiation, Convection, Conduction.
, Radiation - Think of radiant heat as a ray or wave. Example: Radiant heat warms you as
you stand close to a campfire or in the sunlight.
Radiant heat can dry surrounding fuels and sometimes ignite them
Convection - Think of convection as a smoke column above a fire. Convection occurs
when lighter warm air moves upward. The hot gases and embers, which compose the smoke
column, can dry and ignite other fuels.
Conduction - Heat is moved from one fuel source to another through direct contact.
6 (major) Fuel Types - • Grass
• Grass - Shrub
• Shrub
• Timber - Understory
• Timber Litter
• Slash - Blowdown
A simple definition of FUEL is any burnable (combustible) material. - Such as: live and/or
dead plant material.
Houses, sheds, etc., can also be fuels.
Fuels are a source of energy that drives the fire.
Ground Fuels - all combustible materials lying beneath the surface. - • Deep duff
• Tree roots
• Rotten buried logs, other organic material.
Surface Fuels - all combustible materials lying on or immediately above the ground. - •
Needles or Leaves
• Duff (decayed organic matter on the forest floor)
• Grass
