|MOST COMMON QUESTIONS WITH CORRECTLY
VERIFIED ANSWERS|ALREADY A+
GRADED|GUARANTEED PASS
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 systems
Fuel, weather, topography - Environmental influences on fires
small/light fuels - sage grass, light brush, vines
large/heavy fuels - hardwood and softwood trees