Expand Your Horizons
Bulldozers, or colloquially, Dozers.. are an example of this function area of an expanded dispatch
Equipment
This system is the resource tracking and documentation system for most Initial Attack dispatchers
Wildcad-E
This is the term for a new fire that is started by the main fire, but detached from it
Spot fire
The Interagency Resource Ordering Capability
IROC
This 20 person crew has the qualifications necessary to be the first line of response to wildland fires
Type 2 IA Crew
If you need someone to generate an S number you would call this desk
Supply
This kind of report contains initial information, communicated from the field, about new fires
Size Up Report
This standard form helps dispatchers and fire fighters on the ground speak the same language and aligns information during medical incident
Medical Incident Report or MIR
The computer aided dispatch system used by most Interagency Dispatch Center for wildland fire dispatching
Wildcad-E
This type of engine has 150 gallon tank, pump and roll capabilities and is the most common type of engine seen in the southern and eastern United States
Type 6
A SOFR2 is this overhead qualification
Safety Officer Type 2
This collection of documents can serve as a resource to a visiting IADP because it contains information about how the center where they are working functions
SOP
This initial firing operation on a prescribed burn helps fire managers on the ground know if fuels are appropriately receptive to meet burn objectives on the day of the burn
Test fire
This program is a 3d map of earth based on computer generated satellite images. It provides a variety of tools to dispatchers including military training routes for deconflicting aircraft and a draw and measure tool
Google Earth
On this type of crew initial attack can be broken up into squads, fireline construction, complex firing operations (backfire).
Type 1 crew or Hotshot Crew
ICS Form 213 is how the fire communicates with dispatch, commonly using it to order things. What is this form?
General message
This is the title of the person in charge of all resources and responsible for making all decisions for a fire organization for a set period of time - usually the person you will check with before dispatching a resource to a fire
Duty officer
This group of firefighters is different from a crew, and is listed as overhead in IROC
SMOD - Suppression Module
This website is the main course content delivery system for wildland fire education
Wildland Fire Learning Portal
This piece of equipment delivers water to other resources and must have pump and roll capabilities to be considered "tactical" and not "standard"
Water Tender
This type of center, that receives an order that is "passed up" from a tier 3 center, is the routing point between an expanded and NICC
Geographic Area Communication Center
The smallest quarter of this grid like system of geographical mapping is equal to 40 acres
Township, Range, and Section
This is the term for a zone that has both structures like houses and businesses, and forest service land - the area where homes and wildlands meet
Wildland Urban Interface - or WUI
This website allows you to track incident aircraft without using the radio for the required 15 min check ins
automated flight following, or aff.org
This type of airtanker can carry more than 6000 gallons of water
A very large air tanker, or VLAT