Vegetation
This innermost zone extends from the home and should ideally contain zero plants, bark mulch, or combustible vegetation.
What is Zone Zero?
Considered the baseline standard, this provides the best balance between stopping hazardous wind-driven embers and allowing proper HVAC/attic ventilation airflow.
What is 1/8 inch mesh?
This three-sided model represents the elements needed to start a fire: fuel, heat, and oxygen.
What is the Fire Triangle?
What does MWPA stand for?
Who is Marin Wildfire Prevention Authority?
This household item should never, ever be put in a microwave, as it can cause sparks and trigger a fire.
What is aluminum foil (metal)?
The selection, location, grouping, and maintenance of vegetation on the property in such a manner that the opportunity for fire to burn directly to a structure is minimized.
What is defensible space?
Combustible siding within ____ of ground should be marked.
What is 2 inches?
Which weather factor typically influences wildland fire behavior and rate of spread more than any other?
What is wind?
Areas where local governments (cities, counties, or local fire districts) hold primary financial and legal responsibility for fire protection and wildfire response.
State of California (via CAL FIRE or contract counties) holds primary financial and legal responsibility for wildfire prevention and suppression.
What is Local Responsibility Area (LRA)?
What is State Responsibility Area (SRA)?
Its last line is 'If this is their idea of Christmas, I gotta be here for New Year's'
What is Die Hard?
Vegetation that allows fire to spread up, from the landscape into a tree, which carries flames from the ground to other, taller vegetation.
What is ladder fuel?
A roof construction where the roof rafters or trusses visibly extend out beyond the exterior wall, leaving the underside of the roofing assembly and rafter tails completely exposed.
What is an unenclosed (open) eave?
This mode of heat transfer occurs through the movement of hot fluids or gases, typically rising to create a thermal layer.
What is convection?
Requires property owners in State Responsibility Areas (SRAs) and very high fire hazard severity zones to maintain a 100-foot defensible space around all buildings and structures.
What is California Public Resources Code (PRC) Section 4291?
This ancient, multi-crossed symbol serves as the international emblem of the fire service and represents chivalry and protection.
What is the Maltese Cross?
This rule of thumb requires trimming tree branches so they maintain a minimum vertical clearance of this many feet off the ground (or one-third of the tree's height).
What is 6 feet?
According to NFPA, a structure assessment shall document detached structures within _____ of the primary structure.
What is 30 ft?
Which class of fire extinguisher is specifically designed to combat fires involving flammable liquids such as gasoline, oil, and grease?
What is a Class B extinguisher?
An organization, office, or individual responsible for enforcing the requirements of a code or standard, or for approving equipment, materials, an installation, or a procedure.
What is an Authority Having Jurisdiction (AHJ)?
Utility companies frequently use this preventive power shutdown protocol during extreme weather, high winds, and dry vegetation conditions to stop power-line ignitions.
What is a Public Safety Power Shutoff (PSPS)?
A strategic strip of land in a timbered or forested area where vegetation is selectively thinned, pruned, and modified to reduce wildfire intensity.
What is a shaded fuel break?
Radiant heat can cause windows to break even before fire reaches the house. Tempered glass shatters at around______, making it stronger than single-pane glass.
What is 500°F to 600°F?
A fuel complex, defined by volume, type, condition, arrangement, and location, that determines the degree of ease of ignition and resistance to control.
What is a fire hazard?
Because a single town or small fire district might not have the budget, specialized staff, or equipment to handle large-scale emergencies, they establish a _____ to bridge those gaps.
Hint: Measure C funds are to be spent and administered in each of the five MWPA Operational Zones.
What is Joint Powers Authority (JPA)?
If you completely rearrange (anagram) the letters of the word "LISTEN", which common six-letter word do you get?
What is SILENT?