Wildland Firefighting

1. A hand tool consisting of a combination rake and hoe, often used in fireline construction.
2. A layer of decaying forest litter consisting of organics such as needles, leaves, and other plant materials covering the mineral soil.
6. A specifically trained and certified firefighter who travels to remote wildfires by fixed-wing aircraft and parachutes into a jump spo
7. A chainsaw crew, may also include fallers or fellers who are qualified to cut down trees or snags
10. A combination axe and grub hoe tool with a straight handle, used for building handlines.
11. A brand of approved, synthetic, fire-retardant aramid cloth and thread widely used in personal protective equipment for wildland firefighting and jumpsuits.
12. A fire set along the inner edge of a fireline to consume the fuel in the path of a wildfire and to change the direction or force of the fire’s convection column.
13. A hand-carried fire-starting device filled with flammable liquid that is poured across a flaming wick, dropping flaming liquid onto the fuels to be burned.

1. The act of extinguishing or removing burning material near control lines, felling snags, and trenching logs to prevent rolling after an area has burned in order to make a recent fire zone safe or to reduce residual smoke.
3. The part of a control line that is scraped or dug to mineral soil.
4. Safety personnel positioned to monitor the location and behavior of a fire, ready to signal a crew to escape
5. Fire A fire that advances between the tops of trees or shrubs more or less independently of a fire on the ground surface.
6. A fire that burns loose debris on the ground surface, which may include dead branches, blowdown timber, leaves, and low vegetation
7. Any dead standing tree that may be in danger of falling or collapsing.
8. A particularly active part of a fire.
9. All of the work of extinguishing or confining a fire, beginning with its discovery.
12. Setting fire inside a control line to consume fuel between the edge of the fire and the control line.