Basic Wildland Firefighting Training
Questions And Solutions || Verified
\.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
Questions And Solutions || Verified
\.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
