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100

The minimum safety circle for a type 1 helicopter?

110'

100

These two lists combined are commonly referred to the 10 and 18, how many did it start with?

50 Bonus Points if you know the year they started the original?

50 bonus points if you know the year they added the others?

10 and 13

1957

1987

100

Common term used to describe fire running through the tree tops?

Crown fire

100

Current Chief of the US Forest Service?

Randy Moore

100

Official name of the park  that is home to the largest trees on the planet?


Sequoia Kings Canyon National Park

200

This aircraft company deployed the first 747 Super Tanker?

Evergreen

200

Contents of a crash rescue kit?

Crash rescue axe

bolt cutter

hacksaw

seat belt cutter


200

A burn pattern used to to hit two sides of a draw simultaneously?

Chevron

200

Founder of the Wildland Firefighter foundation?

Vicki Minor

200

Largest Forest in the Lower 48?

Humboldt-Toiyabe

300

This tanker once utilized two radial engines and two turbojet engines?

P2 Neptune

300

What is the biggest difference between the type 3 and type 4 engines of the USFS?

PTO vs external engine 

300

These cloud systems have a unique anvil shape once fully formed?

Cumulonimbus

300

Helped develop BIFC into modern day NIFC and currently has the main NIFC building named after him?

Jack Wilson

300

This state has the greatest percent of its land in National Forests?

Idaho

400

This owner of this helicopter company once created such devices as the fire tank, sea snorkel, and foam cannon?

Jack Erickson

Erickson Skycranes

400

This specific bar was once used for brush cutting when saws were more underpowered?

Bow Bar

400

A term used to describe intense preheating that causes fuels to ignite spontaneously?

Flashover

400

This firefighter/smokejumper was credited with saving lives and possibly causing the burn over of others while lighting a back fire on the Mann Gulch fire?

Wag Dodge

400

Smallest forest in the USFS?

50 bonus points for the largest national forest?

Tuskegee NF in Alabama

Tongass NF in Alaska

500

The actual name of the rappel descent device with parts dubbed the "can" and the "bone"

Sky Genie

500

This tool was once utilized for cutting P-lines in thick brush for easier saw access?

Brush Hook

500

Name the Foehn Winds?

Chinook, Santa Ana, Mono, Wasatch, East, and North Winds

500

First Chief of the US Forest Service?

Gifford Pinchot

500

This forest is the only Tropical forest in the US Forest Service?

El Yunque National Forest in Puerto Rico

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