Fire Types
What type of fire burns leaf litter, grass, and small plants on the forest floor.
What is a surface fire?
What is commonly used to remove fuel and create fire breaks.
What are rakes, shovels, handtools
What is it called when a surface fire moves into the tree canopy, it is called this.
What is crowning?
What is the most dangerous type of forest fire that burns in the tops of trees?
What is a crown fire?
What stops a fire by removing its fuel source.
What is fuel elimination?
What term describes how hot a fire burns and flame height.
What is fire intensity?
What type of fire burns below the ground in roots, stumps, and buried logs.
What is an underground fire?
Fire suppression by removing oxygen by covering flames with dirt or using a fire flap.
What is smothering (oxygen elimination)?
What term refers to the arrangement of land such as hills, valleys, and slopes.
What is topography? What is uphill?
What type of fire burns in the same direction as the wind.
What is a head fire?
Water is used to remove this part of the fire triangle.
What is heat?
What term describes the thickness of leaves, limbs, and debris on the forest floor.
What is fuel load?
What type of prescribed burn moves against the wind and is easier to control.
What is a back fire
What uses machines to create wide firebreaks using attachments attached to tractors or bulldozers
What are fire plows?
Fires usually move faster in this direction on a slope.
What is uphill?