Basic Wildland Firefighting Training EXAM
2025 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
An unplanned or unwanted natural or human-caused fire, or a prescribed fire that threatens to
escape its bounds - ANS Wildfire
purposely starting a fire that puts a home or others at risk - ANS ACA 5-38-302
agency responsible for forest fire supression - ANS Forestry Commission
ACA 5-38-310 becomes a violation - ANS When a fire crosses onto another perons property
Time, location, owner, agent - ANS When notifying AFC of a controlled burn give the
following
Damages are doubled - ANS In a civil action where a person's property
does not need permission of the landowner - ANS Fire fighters working under direction of
AFC on private property
combustion - ANS The act of burning is called
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fuel, heat, oxygen - ANS This must be present for combustion to occur
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, radiation, convection, conduction - ANS Fire spreads by three heat transfer methods
Radiant heat - ANS This will push heat ahead of the fire pulling moisture and making fuel
easy to ignite
Convection - ANS this will pull oxygen in from all sides pushing heated air upward making
more oxygen for fire (causes embers to create spot fires)
Conduction - ANS heat transfers through root systems
Fuel, weather, topography - ANS Environmental influences on fires
small/light fuels - ANS sage grass, light brush, vines
large/heavy fuels - ANS hardwood and softwood trees
relative humidity - ANS Most important of environmental factors and first thing to check
when fighting wildfires
more humidity - ANS a fire burns slower with
less humidity - ANS high wind and dryness
wind - ANS changes rapidly over time influencing the spread of wildfire.
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slope - ANS the steepness of the land, never get caught uphill from a fire
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2025 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
An unplanned or unwanted natural or human-caused fire, or a prescribed fire that threatens to
escape its bounds - ANS Wildfire
purposely starting a fire that puts a home or others at risk - ANS ACA 5-38-302
agency responsible for forest fire supression - ANS Forestry Commission
ACA 5-38-310 becomes a violation - ANS When a fire crosses onto another perons property
Time, location, owner, agent - ANS When notifying AFC of a controlled burn give the
following
Damages are doubled - ANS In a civil action where a person's property
does not need permission of the landowner - ANS Fire fighters working under direction of
AFC on private property
combustion - ANS The act of burning is called
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fuel, heat, oxygen - ANS This must be present for combustion to occur
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, radiation, convection, conduction - ANS Fire spreads by three heat transfer methods
Radiant heat - ANS This will push heat ahead of the fire pulling moisture and making fuel
easy to ignite
Convection - ANS this will pull oxygen in from all sides pushing heated air upward making
more oxygen for fire (causes embers to create spot fires)
Conduction - ANS heat transfers through root systems
Fuel, weather, topography - ANS Environmental influences on fires
small/light fuels - ANS sage grass, light brush, vines
large/heavy fuels - ANS hardwood and softwood trees
relative humidity - ANS Most important of environmental factors and first thing to check
when fighting wildfires
more humidity - ANS a fire burns slower with
less humidity - ANS high wind and dryness
wind - ANS changes rapidly over time influencing the spread of wildfire.
2
slope - ANS the steepness of the land, never get caught uphill from a fire
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