WSPP WILDLAND FIRE FIGHTER DEFINITIONS EXAM
QUIZZES WITHRIGHT ACTUAL ANSWERS .
Activity Log - correct Answers -ICS 214 records details of notable activities at any ICS level, including
single resources, equipment, task forces, etc. These logs provide basic incident activity documentation,
and a reference for any action report.
Aerial fuels - correct Answers -All live and dead vegetation located in the forest canopy or above the
surface fuels, including tree branches and crowns, snags, moss, and high brush
Airtanker - correct Answers -A fixed-wing aircraft fitted with tanks and equipment for dropping
suppressants or retardants of fires.
Anchor Point - correct Answers -An advantageous location, usually a barrier to fire spread, from which
to start or finish construction of a control line
Anchor and hold - correct Answers -is a tactic utilizing control lines and large water streams from fixed
water supplies in an attempt to stop fire spread. The goal is to extinguish structure fires, protect
exposures, and reduce ember production
Area ignition - correct Answers -igniting, throughout an area to be burned, several individuals fires
either simultaneously or in rapid succession and spaced so that they soon influence and support each
other to produce a hot, fast-spreading fire throughout the area. also called simultaneous ignition
Aspect - correct Answers -The direction a slope is facing; its exposure in relation to the sun. (North, East,
South, West)
Assemble and Attack - correct Answers -A strategy used with a group of apparatus assembled along an
existing flanking barrier in order to hold the fire in an attempt to force the fire around a group of
structures
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, Base Camp - correct Answers -A strategically located camp through which personnel, equipment, and
supplies are distributed to line camps; usually serves as the fire headquarters from which key overhead
personnel plan and direct suppression operations
Bump and Run - correct Answers -A tactic where resources typically move ahead of the fire front in the
spotting zone to extinguish spot fires and hot spots, and to defend as manty structures as possible
Burning out - correct Answers -Conducted when attack is direct, or parallel, and the control line touches
points of the fire. Burning out is intentionally setting fire to fuels inside the control line to strengthen the
lin. Burning out is almost always done by crew boss as a part of line construction. The control line is
considered incomplete unless there is no fuel between the fire and he control line.
Camp - correct Answers -A geographical site, within the general incident area, separate from base camp,
equipped and staffed to provide sleeping , food, water, and sanitary service to incident personnel
Canopy - correct Answers -The stratum containing the crowns of the tallest vegetation present (living or
dead), usually above 6 meters.
Check and go - correct Answers -A rapid evaluation to check for occupants at a structure who may
require a removal or rescue
Cloud - correct Answers -A visible cluster of minute water and or ice particles in the atmosphere above
the earth's surface
Cold front - correct Answers -the leading edge of a relatively cold air mass that displaces warmer air. the
heavier cold air may cause some of the warm air to be lifted. if the lifted air contains enough moisture,
cloudiness, precipitation and even thunderstorms may result. in case both air masses are dry, and there
may be no cloud formation. Following cold front passage (in the northern hemisphere), often westerly
or northwesterly winds of 10-20 mph, or more, continue for 12 to 24 hours.
Cold trailing - correct Answers -A method of controlling smoldering forest fires by feeling the edge of a
burning area with the hand and digging out or trenching around burning spots
Conduction - correct Answers -The transfer of heat between molecules in contact with one another
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QUIZZES WITHRIGHT ACTUAL ANSWERS .
Activity Log - correct Answers -ICS 214 records details of notable activities at any ICS level, including
single resources, equipment, task forces, etc. These logs provide basic incident activity documentation,
and a reference for any action report.
Aerial fuels - correct Answers -All live and dead vegetation located in the forest canopy or above the
surface fuels, including tree branches and crowns, snags, moss, and high brush
Airtanker - correct Answers -A fixed-wing aircraft fitted with tanks and equipment for dropping
suppressants or retardants of fires.
Anchor Point - correct Answers -An advantageous location, usually a barrier to fire spread, from which
to start or finish construction of a control line
Anchor and hold - correct Answers -is a tactic utilizing control lines and large water streams from fixed
water supplies in an attempt to stop fire spread. The goal is to extinguish structure fires, protect
exposures, and reduce ember production
Area ignition - correct Answers -igniting, throughout an area to be burned, several individuals fires
either simultaneously or in rapid succession and spaced so that they soon influence and support each
other to produce a hot, fast-spreading fire throughout the area. also called simultaneous ignition
Aspect - correct Answers -The direction a slope is facing; its exposure in relation to the sun. (North, East,
South, West)
Assemble and Attack - correct Answers -A strategy used with a group of apparatus assembled along an
existing flanking barrier in order to hold the fire in an attempt to force the fire around a group of
structures
1
, Base Camp - correct Answers -A strategically located camp through which personnel, equipment, and
supplies are distributed to line camps; usually serves as the fire headquarters from which key overhead
personnel plan and direct suppression operations
Bump and Run - correct Answers -A tactic where resources typically move ahead of the fire front in the
spotting zone to extinguish spot fires and hot spots, and to defend as manty structures as possible
Burning out - correct Answers -Conducted when attack is direct, or parallel, and the control line touches
points of the fire. Burning out is intentionally setting fire to fuels inside the control line to strengthen the
lin. Burning out is almost always done by crew boss as a part of line construction. The control line is
considered incomplete unless there is no fuel between the fire and he control line.
Camp - correct Answers -A geographical site, within the general incident area, separate from base camp,
equipped and staffed to provide sleeping , food, water, and sanitary service to incident personnel
Canopy - correct Answers -The stratum containing the crowns of the tallest vegetation present (living or
dead), usually above 6 meters.
Check and go - correct Answers -A rapid evaluation to check for occupants at a structure who may
require a removal or rescue
Cloud - correct Answers -A visible cluster of minute water and or ice particles in the atmosphere above
the earth's surface
Cold front - correct Answers -the leading edge of a relatively cold air mass that displaces warmer air. the
heavier cold air may cause some of the warm air to be lifted. if the lifted air contains enough moisture,
cloudiness, precipitation and even thunderstorms may result. in case both air masses are dry, and there
may be no cloud formation. Following cold front passage (in the northern hemisphere), often westerly
or northwesterly winds of 10-20 mph, or more, continue for 12 to 24 hours.
Cold trailing - correct Answers -A method of controlling smoldering forest fires by feeling the edge of a
burning area with the hand and digging out or trenching around burning spots
Conduction - correct Answers -The transfer of heat between molecules in contact with one another
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