Wildfire Mitigation Specialist Study Set question s with accurate detailed solutions

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Spot fires - ✔✔Fires started by airborne embers some distance away from the main body of the
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fire


What two factors are the primary determinants of a home's ability to survive a wildfire? -
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✔✔Quality of defensible space || || ||




Structural ignitability ||




What does HIZ stand for? - ✔✔Home ignition zone
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What is included in the home ignition zone? - ✔✔The structure
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The space immediately surrounding the structure
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What is the primary goal to protect a home from wildfire? - ✔✔Reduce or eliminate fuels and
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ignition sources within the HIZ
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What are some benefits of fire? - ✔✔Thin tree and brush stands
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Remove dead material || ||




Opens up forest floor to sunlight
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Nourishes the soil || ||




Wildland urban interface - ✔✔Any area where structures and other human development meets or
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intermingles with wildland vegetative fuels || || || ||




Fire suppression in the WUI - ✔✔When fire occurs here, it is suppressed to protect people and
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their homes, so the fires do not burn the way they should to reset the ecology of the systems
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Vegetation is then increased in these areas, which provides more fuel for fires
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International Code Council (ICC) - ✔✔Non-governmental organization that develops and || || || || || || || || || ||




maintains model building codes for use by state and local jurisdictions
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What is construction regulated by? - ✔✔Building codes
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How does a model building code become enforceable? - ✔✔When it is adopted by state and local
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jurisdiction, with or without amendments, and becomes law. || || || || || || ||




What is home rule? - ✔✔Local governments have the ability to establish their own sets of codes
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and standards specific to their community.
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Is Colorado a home-rule state? - ✔✔Yes
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What is the most widely adopted code addressing WUI? - ✔✔The 2009 International Wildland-
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Urban Interface Code (IWUIC)
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International Wildland-Urban Interface Code - ✔✔Establishes minimum regulations for land use
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and the built environment in designated WUI areas, using prescriptive and performance related
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provisions. It is founded on data collected through tests and fire incidents, technical reports, and
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mitigation strategies from around the world || || || || ||




What are ignition-resistant building materials? - ✔✔These sufficiently resist ignition or sustain
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flaming combustion to reduce losses from WUI conflagrations under worst-case weather and fuel
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conditions with wildfire exposure to burning embers and small flames
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Recommended two-part approach to reducing wildfire danger in the WUI - ✔✔Build more || || || || || || || || || || || || ||




ignition-resistant structures ||




Reduce hazardous forest fuels || || ||