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WILDLAND FIREFIGHTING TERMINOLOGY GLOSSARY


Glossary of Wildland Fire Terminology - USDA Forest Service

The Glossary of Wildland Fire Terminology provides a comprehensive listing of terms and definitions used by the National Wildfire ...

WILDLAND FIREFIGHTING TERMINOLOGY GLOSSARY

WILDLAND FIREFIGHTING TERMINOLOGY GLOSSARY. A. Aerial Fuels. All live and dead vegetation in the forest canopy or above surface fuel level including tree ...

Glossary of Wildland Fire PMS 205 - NWCG

The NWCG Glossary of Wildland Fire provides an extensive listing of approved terms and definitions used by the NWCG community. It contains terms commonly used ...

Terminology - InciWeb

As used to classify the cause of a wildland fire, a fire that was started for cooking or warming that spreads sufficiently from its source to require action by ...

PMS 205 - NWCG

NWCG Glossary of Wildland Fire. Steward: Data Standards and Terminology Board. Parent Committee: Data Management Committee. Publication Type: Portal. Print PDF ...

A Glossary of Wildfire Terms You Need to Know - Orion Magazine

A Forest Service glossary of wildfire terms runs nearly two hundred pages, but critical for nearby residents to know for getting a grasp of what's happening on ...

Glossary of Wildland Fire Terms - National Park Service

Glossary of Wildland Fire Terms. A. Aerial Ignition: Ignition of fuels by dropping incendiary devices or materials from aircraft. Air Tanker: A fixed-wing ...

Glossary of wildfire terms - Wikipedia

D · dead man zone: The unburnt areas around the edges of a brush fire. · dead out: The state of a fire being completely out, with no smoldering or burning areas ...

Fire Glossary - Jefferson County Fire and EMS

Fire Glossary ; Any fixed-wing aircraft used to drop retardant or water on a wildland fire. · A term associated with attack methods. Refers to an advantageous ...

Fire Terminology - USDA Forest Service

The following glossary contains fire terms. The entire glossary is in ABC ... Wildland Fire Use: The management of naturally ignited wildland fires to ...

Glossary of Terms - B - Forests and Rangelands

Backfire: A fire set along the inner edge of a fireline to consume the fuels in the path of a wildfire and/or to change the direction of force of the fire's ...

Forestry & Wildfire Glossaries of Terms | Colorado State Forest Service

National Wildfire Coordinating Group (NWCG) – Glossary of Wildland Fire Terminology. This glossary provides the wildland fire and fire use communities a single ...

NWCG - Glossary of Wildland Fire Terminology - Frames.gov

This glossary provides the wildland fire and fire use communities a single source for wildland fire, prescribed fire, fire use and incident ...

Wildland Fire Terminology 101 - KTVH

Wildland firefighters often use terminology unfamiliar to the general public. This glossary is intended to help people better understand the ...

Helpful Links and Glossary of Wildland Fire Terminology

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Canadian Wildland Fire Management Glossary - CIFFC

Usually specified in terms of such factors as fire weather elements, fire danger indexes, fuel load, and slope. See Fire Danger, Wildfire Risk. Burning Off A ...

GFMC: Fire Management Glossaries

FAO / GFMC Wildland Fire Management Terminology. In 1999 the GFMC was entrusted by the FAO to develop an update of the 1986 version of the ...

Your Wildfire Terminology Dictionary: ABC's of the Wildfire World

Here's a quick refresher on commonly used wildfire-related terms; using definitions from the National Park Service/USDA Forest Service wildfire terminology ...

Glossary — California PBA - Prescribed Burn Associations

Glossary of Common Prescribed Fire Terminology · Aerial fuels: All live and dead vegetation in the forest canopy or above surface fuels, including tree branches, ...

Glossary: Wildland Fire Terminology

Glossary: Wildland Fire Terminology. Wildland Fire Term. Definition. Active Wildland. Firefighter. A wildland firefighter fully qualified to ...