S-130 WILDLAND FINAL EXAM ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔Proper radio use will result in prompt action.
Identify THREE procedures to follow when transmitting and receiving a radio message.
- Answer the radio with your full name.
- Wait five seconds between pressing the transmit button and speaking.
- Hold the radio 2 to 4 inches (5 to 10 cm) from your mouth when speaking.
- State your station name and unit number three times during every call.
- When calling, first transmit the station name or unit number of the other person.
- Close the call with the proper identifier if you initiated the call. - ✔✔- Hold the radio 2 to
4 inches (5 to 10 cm) from your mouth when speaking.
- When calling, first transmit the station name or unit number of the other person.
-Close the call with the proper identifier if you initiated the call.
✔✔Identify THREE things your patrol should do while searching for spot fires in your
assigned area.
- Alert your crew and move briskly.
- Begin patrolling from the highest vantage point.
- Patrol area at intervals determined by fuel type.
- Patrol the area in a pattern that is parallel to the fire line.
- Create a fireline between the spot fire and the green.
- Select two reference points in your area. - ✔✔- Patrol area at intervals determined by
fuel type.
- Patrol the area in a pattern that is parallel to the fireline.
- Select two reference points in your area.
✔✔Identify FOUR guidelines to follow when performing systematic mop up.
- Plan a beginning and an ending point.
- Fell unburned trees on steep terrain.
- Check for cool areas by holding a gloved hand over hot areas.
- Implement a grid system when faced with complicated situations.
- Start with the hottest area and progress to the coolest.
- Work inward from the control line.
- Stay in the green during wet mop up. - ✔✔- Plan a beginning and an ending point.
- Implement a grid system when faced with complicated situations.
- Start with the hottest area and progress to the coolest.
- Work inward from the control line.
✔✔Fell into the black. - ✔✔Snag burning at the top.
, ✔✔Bare back of hand close, but nut touching. - ✔✔Testing for heat.
✔✔Trench on downhill side. - ✔✔Hot material on a slope.
✔✔Turn to lie with the slope. - ✔✔Log on a slope.
✔✔Peel off loose bark - ✔✔Snag burning at base.
✔✔Extinguished within a specific distance of the control line. - ✔✔All smoldering
material.
✔✔You're involved in a mop-up operation in heavy fuels.
Identify the most commonly use foam in wildland firefighting.
- High expansion fluid foam.
- Low expansion foam solution.
- Low expansion dry foam.
- Medium expansion wet foam. - ✔✔- Low expansion foam solution.
✔✔Stir and mix hot embers with dirt. - ✔✔Dry mop up.
✔✔Cut into burning and unburned sections. - ✔✔Logs too big to move.
✔✔Spray, stir, and spray again as necessary. - ✔✔Wet mop up.
✔✔Dig out and disperse any burning materials. - ✔✔Subsurface ground fuels.
✔✔Identify FOUR ways to keep your portable radio in good working order.
- Keep portables in their protective case.
- Protect the radio from excessive vibration.
- Do not modify or attempt to repair your radio.
- Do not use the antenna to pull your radio from it's case.
- Dedicate each radio to a single user.
- Limit access to ultra high-band frequencies. (UHF) - ✔✔- Keep portables in their
protective case.
- Protect the radio from excessive vibration.
- Do not modify or attempt to repair your radio.
- Do not use the antenna to pull your radio from it's case.
✔✔Temporary line made with water, foam, or retardants. - ✔✔Wet line.
✔✔Preliminary control line to quickly check the fire's spread. - ✔✔Scratch line.
ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔Proper radio use will result in prompt action.
Identify THREE procedures to follow when transmitting and receiving a radio message.
- Answer the radio with your full name.
- Wait five seconds between pressing the transmit button and speaking.
- Hold the radio 2 to 4 inches (5 to 10 cm) from your mouth when speaking.
- State your station name and unit number three times during every call.
- When calling, first transmit the station name or unit number of the other person.
- Close the call with the proper identifier if you initiated the call. - ✔✔- Hold the radio 2 to
4 inches (5 to 10 cm) from your mouth when speaking.
- When calling, first transmit the station name or unit number of the other person.
-Close the call with the proper identifier if you initiated the call.
✔✔Identify THREE things your patrol should do while searching for spot fires in your
assigned area.
- Alert your crew and move briskly.
- Begin patrolling from the highest vantage point.
- Patrol area at intervals determined by fuel type.
- Patrol the area in a pattern that is parallel to the fire line.
- Create a fireline between the spot fire and the green.
- Select two reference points in your area. - ✔✔- Patrol area at intervals determined by
fuel type.
- Patrol the area in a pattern that is parallel to the fireline.
- Select two reference points in your area.
✔✔Identify FOUR guidelines to follow when performing systematic mop up.
- Plan a beginning and an ending point.
- Fell unburned trees on steep terrain.
- Check for cool areas by holding a gloved hand over hot areas.
- Implement a grid system when faced with complicated situations.
- Start with the hottest area and progress to the coolest.
- Work inward from the control line.
- Stay in the green during wet mop up. - ✔✔- Plan a beginning and an ending point.
- Implement a grid system when faced with complicated situations.
- Start with the hottest area and progress to the coolest.
- Work inward from the control line.
✔✔Fell into the black. - ✔✔Snag burning at the top.
, ✔✔Bare back of hand close, but nut touching. - ✔✔Testing for heat.
✔✔Trench on downhill side. - ✔✔Hot material on a slope.
✔✔Turn to lie with the slope. - ✔✔Log on a slope.
✔✔Peel off loose bark - ✔✔Snag burning at base.
✔✔Extinguished within a specific distance of the control line. - ✔✔All smoldering
material.
✔✔You're involved in a mop-up operation in heavy fuels.
Identify the most commonly use foam in wildland firefighting.
- High expansion fluid foam.
- Low expansion foam solution.
- Low expansion dry foam.
- Medium expansion wet foam. - ✔✔- Low expansion foam solution.
✔✔Stir and mix hot embers with dirt. - ✔✔Dry mop up.
✔✔Cut into burning and unburned sections. - ✔✔Logs too big to move.
✔✔Spray, stir, and spray again as necessary. - ✔✔Wet mop up.
✔✔Dig out and disperse any burning materials. - ✔✔Subsurface ground fuels.
✔✔Identify FOUR ways to keep your portable radio in good working order.
- Keep portables in their protective case.
- Protect the radio from excessive vibration.
- Do not modify or attempt to repair your radio.
- Do not use the antenna to pull your radio from it's case.
- Dedicate each radio to a single user.
- Limit access to ultra high-band frequencies. (UHF) - ✔✔- Keep portables in their
protective case.
- Protect the radio from excessive vibration.
- Do not modify or attempt to repair your radio.
- Do not use the antenna to pull your radio from it's case.
✔✔Temporary line made with water, foam, or retardants. - ✔✔Wet line.
✔✔Preliminary control line to quickly check the fire's spread. - ✔✔Scratch line.
