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