Basic Wildland Firefighting Training

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 large/heavy fuels - Answer- hardwood and softwood trees relative humidity - Answer- Most important of environmental factors and first thing to check when fighting wildfires more humidi