Knowledge is Power
IRPG stands for this
What is Incident Response Pocket Guide?
True or False: As a Federal Employee you are permitted to ride on any helicopter during work operations
This agency issues Red Flag Warnings
What is the National Weather Service
On Hazmat Placards Red represents Fire Hazards, Yellow Reactivity, White Specific Hazards, and Blue this Hazard
What is a Health Hazard?
The three sides of the fire triangle
What are Oxygen, Heat and Fuel?
This website bring us 6 Minutes for Safety as well as many other learning tools
What is NWCG?
Daily Double: NWCG stands for this
A fire outside the perimeter of the main fire started by flying or rolling sparks or embers that must immediately be communicated to others
What is a spot fire?
In general winds are upslope/up-valley during this time of day
What is late morning to late afternoon or around noon until sunset.
Black with little reburn potential, large area void of vegetation, large bodies of water are examples of this
What are safety zones?
Percentage of wildfires that are human caused
What is 90% or 9 out of 10?
This book is updated yearly and is our (NPS Wildland Firefighters) Guide to the policies and doctrines that we must follow
What is the Interagency Standards for Fire and Fire Aviation, aka The Red Book?
Latitude and Longitude can be expressed in this format
What is Degrees Decimal Minutes or Degrees Minutes Seconds
Daily Double: convert 48o 20.5' to Degrees Minutes Seconds
LAL stands for this and uses a scale of 1-6 with 1 being the least severe and 6 being the most severe
Lightning Activity Level
Things you should do when you find yourself in the drop zone of an air drop of retardant and the tanker is approaching
What is find an area free of overhanging limbs, lie face down with head toward the aircraft's approach and anchor yourself to a secure object.
The 4 Bureaus and Offices of the DOI that have Wildland Fire Programs
What are Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA), Bureau of Land Management (BLM), National Park Service (NPS), and US Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS).
Used to ensure an individual can adequately complete a duty before receiving a qualification through evaluation of hands on experiences
What are Position Task Books?
5 items you should receive information on from a fire briefing
What are (any of the following)
incident name, fuel type and conditions, weather, fire behavior, command identified, leader's intent, assignments, contingency plans, medical plan, communication frequencies and phone numbers, other resources, logistical information, known hazards, trigger points and LCES?
Increased fire behavior would indicate this type of atmospheric stability
What is Unstable?
Medical device carried by each crew member and located in 10 person kit used to stop excessive uncontrolled bleeding on extremities
What is a tourniquet?
What is yellow?
We receive the SIT (IMSR) report from the NIFC website that complies information from NICC. These 3 abbreviations stand for this
What are
Incident Management Situation Report
National Interagency Fire Center
National Interagency Coordination Center?
Location where you should always start initial line construction
What is Anchor Point?
These two measurable factors are used in conjunction with the elevation to determine Relative Humidity
What is Dry and Web Bulb Temperatures?
3 of the 5 steps to the Risk Management Process
What are identify hazards, assess hazards, develop controls and make risk management decisions, implementing controls, and supervise and evaluate effectiveness?
PLOWS stands for this