The weather outside is weather
This is the most critical weather factor influencing fire spread.
What is wind?
This tactic becomes ineffective when flame lengths exceed 4 feet.
What is direct attack?
This component of LCES must be continuously reevaluated as fire behavior and conditions change.
What are escape routes and safety zones?
This color of smoke often indicates the transition from surface fuels to heavy, volatile fuels like brush or timber.
What is black (or dark) smoke?
This ICS form is used to replace equipment that is left on the fireline, given to Division at the end of the shift.
What is ICS-213, General Message Form?
When the temperature increases the RH typically does this.
What is decreases?
Establishing this before committing resources to line construction is critical to prevent being outflanked.
What is an anchor point?
The physical area determined beforehand that a fire may burn to that will prompt immediate reevaluation or disengagement.
What is a trigger point?
This watch out situation is occurring if you find yourself working on a hillside where you cannot see the main fire and have no direct radio contact with anyone who can.
What is Watch Out #7?
This area at basecamp is responsible for food, supplies, and ground support.
What is logistics?
This atmospheric condition occurs when warm air traps cooler air near the ground, often reducing fire activity until it breaks.
What is a temperature inversion?
This tactic uses natural or existing barriers combined with firing operations to control fire spread.
What is indirect attack?
The qualification required of an individual responsible for overseeing the construction of downhill fire line.
What is a task force leader (TFLD) or Incident Commander Type 4 (ICT4).
This is a local weather phenomenon, which causes afternoon winds to reverse and push fires downslope contrary to normal uphill fire behavior.
What is the Elsinore Effect?
This section of the ICS is responsible for Demobilization.
What is Planning?
This type of atmospheric condition is present generally with vertical motion (good visibility), convective weather and cumulous clouds.
What is unstable atmosphere?
This method of controlling a partly dead fire edge involves carefully inspecting and feeling with hands to detect heat, often in "mop up" stages.
What is cold trailing?
This resource should not be used as a look out even though they have the best vantage point of the fire and the crews.
What is a helicopter?
When determining the size of a safety zone, this general guideline states the minimum distance of separation required between a firefighter and the flames.
What is four times the maximum flame height?
The person you would talk to if you found a rat in your burger.
Who is the Food Unit Leader?
These winds are caused by terrain heating and cooling, resulting in upslope during the day and downslope at night.
What are diurnal winds?
This tactic commonly used in wilderness areas, aims to suppress the fire while minimizing long term damage to the environment from tools or heavy equipment.
What is MIST? (Minimal Impact Suppression Tactics)
The creator of the LCES system.
Who is Paul Gleason?
According to the "Common Denominators", most fatalities occur on relatively small fires or deceptively quiet areas of large fires, often involving this specific fuel type.
What are light, flashy fuels?
This is where you go first when arriving at base camp.
What is Check-In location? (Typically in the Resources Unit Trailer)