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What type of helicopter is the largest? - correct answer✔✔Type 1
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What type of fire is the slowest burning? - correct answer✔✔Ground
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What type of fuels transfer fire to ladder fuels? - correct answer✔✔Surface Fuels
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What is the minimum height for wildland boots? - correct answer✔✔8 in.
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What is the name of where the fire starts? - correct answer✔✔Point of Origin
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What is the name for the fastest moving part of the fire? - correct answer✔✔Head
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What is the name of the geographical sections on a fire? - correct answer✔✔Divisions
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What is the process to clear a structure for rapidly moving fire? - correct answer✔✔Check
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What is the process where you prepare the structure & then defend from fire? - correct
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answer✔✔Prep & Defend ||\\|//|| ||\\|//||




What is undeveloped land with vegetation up to a structure? - correct answer✔✔Wildland
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,What type of vehicle has short wheelbase and higher ground clearnace? - correct
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answer✔✔Type 3 ||\\|//||




Which slope of a hill heats up first? - correct answer✔✔East
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What tool has rake/grubbing end? - correct answer✔✔Pulaski
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If there is not enough time to build a proper hand line build? - correct answer✔✔Scratch
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Inspect wildland boots for which pf the following? - correct answer✔✔Defects
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What tool has 2 sharp edges for digging, throwing dirt, and cutting line? - correct
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answer✔✔Shovel



What type of fire results from surface fuels igniting ladder fuels? - correct
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answer✔✔Crown



What do you look for on handle of a shovel? - correct answer✔✔Smoothness
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What is directing spot fires away from a structure? - correct answer✔✔Bump & Run
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Who has overall decision making on a fire? - correct answer✔✔Incident Command
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How high is vegetation considered arial fuels? - correct answer✔✔6 ft
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When you make a line with water or fire retardant or foam? - correct answer✔✔Wet line
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,What is the process of mopping up without water? - correct answer✔✔Dry Mop Up
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What is it called when you bury embers with soil? - correct answer✔✔Banking
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What is it called when you're attacking a fires edge? - correct answer✔✔Direct Attack
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What is it called when you chop up smaller pieces? - correct answer✔✔Chunking
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What slope gets the hottest/exposed to most sunlight? - correct answer✔✔South
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Where do most wildland fires start? - correct answer✔✔Ground
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What type of fuel has least affect on fire spread? - correct answer✔✔Ground
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How long should you be self sufficient for with personal gear bag? - correct answer✔✔14
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Whats the spacing kept between you and the next person cutting line? - correct
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answer✔✔10 ft ||\\|//||




Wildland fuels that lie under the surface of ground? - correct answer✔✔Subsurface fuels
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Which extinguishing agent is best suited for use in wildland fire operations? - correct
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answer✔✔Compressed Air Foam ||\\|//|| ||\\|//||

, What is the term for the partly decomposed organic material on a forest floor? - correct
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answer✔✔Ground Duff ||\\|//||




What is the most common type of wildland fire? - correct answer✔✔Ground Cover
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What is another term for surface fuels? - correct answer✔✔Ground
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The smothering method of extinguishment is most frequently used in which wildland
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operation? - correct answer✔✔Overhaul ||\\|//|| ||\\|//|| ||\\|//||




The location near where a wildland fire began is the? - correct answer✔✔Heel
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All combustible materials below the surface litter, including duff, tree or shrub roots,
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punky wood, peat, and sawdust, that normally support a glowing combustion without
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flame? - correct answer✔✔Ground Fuel ||\\|//|| ||\\|//|| ||\\|//|| ||\\|//||




Fuels that are in contact with each other are described as? - correct answer✔✔Continous
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If a wildland or ground cover fire is too dangerous for a direct attack, which type of fire
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attack should be used? - correct answer✔✔Indirect Attack ||\\|//|| ||\\|//|| ||\\|//|| ||\\|//|| ||\\|//|| ||\\|//|| ||\\|//||




List the four components of LCES - correct answer✔✔Lookouts, communication, Escape
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Slope and gravity are important safety considerations because:
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A. Increase slope increases the rate of spread
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B. Working on slopes increases firefighters fatigue
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