Wildland Firefighting Training and Uses of Firefighting Resources Exam With
100% Correct Solutions New!!
1.Basic Wildland Firefighting Training
2.Use of Firefighting Resources : Wildland Firefighting
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 humidity - ANSWER a fire burns slower with
less humidity - ANSWER high wind and dryness
wind - ANSWER changes rapidly over time influencing the spread of wildfire.
slope - ANSWER the steepness of the land, never get caught uphill from a fire
100% Correct Solutions New!!
1.Basic Wildland Firefighting Training
2.Use of Firefighting Resources : Wildland Firefighting
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 humidity - ANSWER a fire burns slower with
less humidity - ANSWER high wind and dryness
wind - ANSWER changes rapidly over time influencing the spread of wildfire.
slope - ANSWER the steepness of the land, never get caught uphill from a fire
