Fire Behaviour
The 3 components of the Fire Triangle.
What is heat, oxygen, and fuel?
The number of unique watchout situations as described by your notepad.
What is 17?
The 4 Types of Nozzles.
The names of the Grande Prairie Forest Area Lookouts.
What is Bald Mountain, Pinto, Nose Mountain, Kakwa, Snuff, Puskwaskau, White Mountain, Saddle Hills, Copton, Torrens, Smoky, and Economy?
The provincial priorities, from most important to least important.
What is human life, communities, watersheds and soils, natural resources, and infrastructure?
Four ignition devices
What is fusee, PSD, driptorch, helitorch
The 4 Fire Bases in the Grande Prairie Foresty Area
What is Graham Base, Valleyview Base, Frying Pan, and Happy Valley?
The five weather factors that influence fire behavior
The 4 Survival Options for entrapment or burnover.
What is vehicle refuge, passing through the fire's edge, burnout, and using heavy equipment?
The five usual causes for pump issues.
What is fuel, spark, air, flooding, and loss of prime?
List ALL the firenet radio channels and their sister stations in the Grande Prairie Forest Area.
What is 201 (Grande Prairie Forestry and Tanker Base), 213 (Kakwa and Nose), 223 (Copton and Torrens), 225 (Bald and Pinto), 228 (Snuff, and Puskwaskau), 231 (Saddle and White), 234 (Smoky and Economy)?
The four Alberta Wildfire Pumps.
What is a Mark III, Floto, Mini Striker, and Wildfire BB4?
The five cloud types associated with concerning atmospheric conditions for firefighting.
What is cumulus, altocumulus, cumulonimbus, pyrocumulus, and firewhirl?
The legislation ensuring the right to refuse dangerous work.
What is the Alberta Health and Safety Act?
5 pieces of heavy equipment
What are dozers, skidders, water tenders, excavators, Sherp, fellerbuncher, and nodwells, swamp buggies, or Haglund.
The nearest hospital to White Mountain Daybase
What is Spirit River Hospital / Central Peace Health Complex
What is a birddog?
The minimum rain required to significantly affect the FFMC, DMC, and DC moisture codes respectively.
What is 0.6mm, 1.5mm,and 2.9mm?
The 5 Statuses of Wildfire.
What is Out of Control (OC), Being Held (BH), Under Control (UC), Turned Over (TO), Extinguished (EX)?
The maximum payload for the size classification that Astars belong to.
What is 3500?
A caller says he's at 55.257, 119.964 and says he sees a large light grey smoke above a lake 30km west of himself. HAC 3 is at White Mountain with a helicopter and HAC 1 is at Graham with a helicopter. Which crew will action the fire?
Neither, as 30 km west of 119.964 is west of the 120th parallel, making it BC's problem.
The distress call from lookouts used when the lookout cannot immediately discuss the threat.
What is EE (Echo Echo)?