Wildland Firefighting

3. A layer of decaying forest litter consisting of organics such as needles, leaves, and other plant materials covering the mineral soil.
5. A particularly active part of a fire.
6. Fuels which provide vertical continuity between strata, thereby allowing fire to carry from surface fuels into the crowns of trees or shrubs with relative ease.
9. Fire A fire that advances between the tops of trees or shrubs more or less independently of a fire on the ground surface.
10. Safety personnel positioned to monitor the location and behavior of a fire, ready to signal a crew to escape
13. 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.
16. A fire that burns loose debris on the ground surface, which may include dead branches, blowdown timber, leaves, and low vegetation
17. A hand tool consisting of a combination rake and hoe, often used in fireline construction.
18. The long narrow extensions of a fire projecting from the main body.
20. The movement of fire through the crowns of trees or shrubs more or less independently of the surface fire.

1. Setting fire inside a control line to consume fuel between the edge of the fire and the control line.
2. A chainsaw crew, may also include fallers or fellers who are qualified to cut down trees or snags
4. A specifically trained and certified firefighter who travels to remote wildfires by fixed-wing aircraft and parachutes into a jump spo
7. 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.
8. Any dead standing tree that may be in danger of falling or collapsing.
11. 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.
12. The part of a control line that is scraped or dug to mineral soil.
14. A combination axe and grub hoe tool with a straight handle, used for building handlines.
15. All of the work of extinguishing or confining a fire, beginning with its discovery.
19. A brand of approved, synthetic, fire-retardant aramid cloth and thread widely used in personal protective equipment for wildland firefighting and jumpsuits.