Wildland firefighting S-190 Exam
Questions and Answers
Origin - Answer-Where the fire started and or where it's going.
Head - Answer-Greatest rate of spread. Moves intensely. May have more than one head.
Fingers - Answer-Long narrow strips of fire that break off of the main fire. Caused by mixed fuels,
natural features dividing the fire.
Pocket - Answer-Unaffected area between the main fire and finger.
Perimeter - Answer-Outer boundary of burning or burnt area.
Rear/ heel - Answer-Opposite to the head of the fire. Close to the point of origin.
Flanks - Answer-Sides of a wildland fire. May change to the head or fingers might form because of fuel.
Islands - Answer-Unburned areas inside the perimeter.
, Wildland fires - Answer-Unplanned or unwanted fires.
Fireline - Answer-Part of the control line. Dug to mineral soil. Where firefighting activities take place.
Spot fires - Answer-Smalls fires burning beyond main fire boundary.
Convection column - Answer-Rising hot air/ gas above the fire source.
Slopover/ Breakover - Answer-When fire crosses a control line
The green - Answer-Unburned area close to the fire where live or dead fuels are. NOT SAFE
Live fuels - Answer-Living plants, high moisture vegetation, low moisture content
Dead fuels - Answer-Where moisture is only governed by only atmospheric moisture. Ie: relative
humidity and precipitation.
The Black - Answer-Area where fire has already moved through.
Surface/ Ground Fuel - Answer-Fuel that contacts the ground. Ex: leafs, dead branches, bark, tree
cones.
Aerial fuels - Answer-Fuel suspended from the ground. Ex: branches, twigs, bark and vines.
Black unsafe - Answer-Steep terrain, hot spots, falling snags, exposure from adjacent Unburned fuels.
Questions and Answers
Origin - Answer-Where the fire started and or where it's going.
Head - Answer-Greatest rate of spread. Moves intensely. May have more than one head.
Fingers - Answer-Long narrow strips of fire that break off of the main fire. Caused by mixed fuels,
natural features dividing the fire.
Pocket - Answer-Unaffected area between the main fire and finger.
Perimeter - Answer-Outer boundary of burning or burnt area.
Rear/ heel - Answer-Opposite to the head of the fire. Close to the point of origin.
Flanks - Answer-Sides of a wildland fire. May change to the head or fingers might form because of fuel.
Islands - Answer-Unburned areas inside the perimeter.
, Wildland fires - Answer-Unplanned or unwanted fires.
Fireline - Answer-Part of the control line. Dug to mineral soil. Where firefighting activities take place.
Spot fires - Answer-Smalls fires burning beyond main fire boundary.
Convection column - Answer-Rising hot air/ gas above the fire source.
Slopover/ Breakover - Answer-When fire crosses a control line
The green - Answer-Unburned area close to the fire where live or dead fuels are. NOT SAFE
Live fuels - Answer-Living plants, high moisture vegetation, low moisture content
Dead fuels - Answer-Where moisture is only governed by only atmospheric moisture. Ie: relative
humidity and precipitation.
The Black - Answer-Area where fire has already moved through.
Surface/ Ground Fuel - Answer-Fuel that contacts the ground. Ex: leafs, dead branches, bark, tree
cones.
Aerial fuels - Answer-Fuel suspended from the ground. Ex: branches, twigs, bark and vines.
Black unsafe - Answer-Steep terrain, hot spots, falling snags, exposure from adjacent Unburned fuels.
