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(Fire Fighter Skills) Chapter 21 Wildland and Ground Cover Fires Flashcards

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____ type of wildland fire that burns loose debris on the surface of the ground. (Grass, dead leaves, needleds, and branches)
A. Wildland
B. Wildland/urban interface
C. Debris Fire
D. Ground Cover Fire

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D. Ground Cover Fire

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What is the Wildland Fire Triangle?
A. Fuel, Heat, Oxygen, Weather
B. Fuel, Heat, Air
C. Fuel, Heat, Oxygen, Chemical reaction
D. Fuel, Heat, Oxygen

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D. Fuel, Heat, Oxygen
Weather conditions have a major impact on the behavior of wireland fires and should consider how each side of the fire triangle is influenced by certain weather conditions

Firefighter Skills Chapter 21 Wildland, 789

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What type of wildland fuel are specifically pieces of logs, branches, bark, stumps, and other vegetative debris left over from logging and land clearing operations?
A. Subsurface Fuels
B. Surface Fuels
C. Slash
D. Aerial Fuels

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C. Slash
Surface fuels also call ground fuels are located close to the surface of the ground. They include grass, fallen leaves, wtigs, needels, small trees, and slash

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In the wildland fuel charateristics.____ has a large surface area relative to their volume, which causes them to ignite easily, burn quickly, and produce a lot of heat
A. Fine Fuels
B. Ground Duff
C. Heavy Fuels
D. Fuel compactness

A

A. Fine Fuels

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In the wildland fuel charateristics. ____Is made of the partly decompled organic material on the forest floor.
A. Fine Fuels
B. Ground Duff
C. Heavy Fuels
D. Fuel compactness

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B. Ground Duff
Ground Duff is considered a fine fuel

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In the wildland fuel charateristics. ____ are of larger diameter than fine fuels. They include slash, large brush, heavy timber, stumps, branches, and dead timber on the ground
A. Fine Fuels
B. Ground Duff
C. Heavy Fuels
D. Fuel compactness

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C. Heavy Fuels
(safety section of book) states that heavy fuels require close attection. Spraying water on the outside of these materials will not extinguish the fire. They have a tendency to continue to burn on the inside. Heavey fuels need to be cut out to confirm that the fire fighters have extinguished all of the fire and to prevent a rekindling

FireFighter Skills WIldland, chapter 21 page 789

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What is true beween fire continuity and/or ladder fuels?
A. Fire continuity is burning the same item and does not travel
B. Ladder fuels burn sideways
C. Ladder fuels only burn ladders of wood
D. Fire continuity has uninterrupted connection

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D. Fire continuity has uninterrupted connections
Ladder fuel carry fire from the surface of the ground into the tops of shrubs and trees. Fire continuity has uninterrupted connections such as intertwined trees and branches.

Firefighter Skills wildland chapter 21 page 790

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What is not an accidental cause of wildland fires?
A. Lightning
B. Smoking materials
C. Improperly extinguished campfires
D. Down electrical wires

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A. Lightning
Lightning is a natural cause. Three ways wildland and ground cover fires may be ignited are natural, accidental, and intentional

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Anatomy of a Wildland fire. What is the traveling edge that rapidly moving area?
A. Area of Origin
B. Finger
C. Island
D. Head of the Fire

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D. Head of the fire

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Anatomy of a Wildland fire. What is the another name for heel of the fire?
A. Area of Origin
B. Finger
C. Island
D. Head of the Fire

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A. Area of Origin

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Anatomy of a Wildland fire. What is an unburned part between fingers?
A. Area of Origin
B. Finger
C. Island
D. Pocket

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D. Pocket

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Anatomy of a Wildland fire. What is land that is untouched by fire but surrounded by burned land?
A. Area of Origin
B. Finger
C. Island
D. Pocket

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C. Island

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Anatomy of a Wildland fire. As the fire grows, a change in weather, topography, or fuel cause it to move in such a way that it projects out into a long, narrow extension called what?
A. Area of Origin
B. Finger
C. Island
D. Head of the Fire

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B. Finger

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____ is a new fire that starts outside the perimeter of the main fire in wildland fires
A. Finger
B. Pocket
C. Spot Fire
D. Black

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C. Spot Fire

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Most portable backpack fire extinguishers hold ____ gal (____ L) of water.
A. 12 gal, 45 L
B. 5 gal, 19 L
C. 2 gal, 7 L
D. 500 gal, 1892

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B. 5 gal, 19 L

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____ comprehensive term for all constructed or natural barriers and treated fire edges used to control fire (NFPA 901)
A. Fire shelter
B. Firing out
C. CAFS
D. Fire control line

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D. Fire control Line

Firefighter skills wildland 810

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Wildland tool a combination of hoe and rake.
A. McLeod
B. Reinhart
C. Pulaski Axe
D. Council Rake

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A. McLeod
Used for light brush

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Wildland fire tool that looks like an oversized garden hoe
A. McLeod
B. Reinhart
C. Pulaski Axe
D. Council Rake

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B. Reinhart
Works well on heavier brush

Firefighter skill chapter 21 794

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Wildland fire tool also known as an adze hoe and can be used to grub out brush to create a fire control line
A. McLeod
B. Reinhard
C. Hazel Hoe
D. Council rake

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C. Hazel Hoe

Firefighter skill chapter 21 794

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Wildland fire tool that combines an adze and an axe for brush removal
A. Reinhart
B. Hazel hoe
C. Council Rake
D. Pulaski Axe

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D. Pulaski Axe

Firefighter skill chapter 21 794

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____ is a long handled rake constructed with hardened tri-angular shaped steel teeth that us ised for digging, rolling burning logs, for cutting grass/ small brush, raking for fire control line down to soil with no subsurface fuel
A. McLeod
B. Reinheart
C. Council Rake
D. Pulaski Axe

A

C. Council Rake

Firefighter skill chapter 21 794

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A ____ is a fire that is intentonally set by firefighters along the inner edge of a fire control line in an attempt to burn an area of vegetation, thereby creating a buffer area in which fuel has alread has been burned
A. Firing out
B. Backfire
C. Misfire
D. Fire Cut

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B. Back fire
Firing out is another method of seeting fire to remove fuel but is used on the flank or other part of a fire to preestablihsed fire contol line or to clean up or strengthen a fire control line

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For wildland firefighting operations. Fire attack should alway start from ?
A. Left flank
B. Right flank
C. Anchor point
D. Head

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C. Anchor Point

Chapter 21 wildland Firefighter skill page 799

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In wildland firefighting, ____ (also known as a pincer attack) requires at least two or more teams of firefighters.
A. Flanking attack
B. Anchor, flank, and pinch attack
C. Defence attack
D. Transitional attack

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B. Anchor, Flank, and pinch attack

Chapter 21 wildland Firefighter skill page 799

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In wildland fire what does LCES stand for?
A. Lenoir City Elementry School
B. Looking, Cool, Espically, Shades
C. Linkin, Communications, Easy, Escape zones
D. Lookouts, Communications, Escape Routes, and Safety Zones

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D. Lookouts, Communications, Escape Routes, and Safety Zones
LACES is an adapation to LCES. The “A” component may hace three different meaning depending on the area: Anchor points, Attitude, or Awareness.

Chapter 21 wildland Firefighter skill page 802

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Q

What is a hazard to wildland firefighting?
A. Conductivity of transmission lines
B. Loose Branches
C. Stump-Laden areas
D. All of the above.

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D. All of the above
Smoke and head can increase the conductivity of high powered transmission lines.
Loose branches caused by fire or chainsaws can fall and cause injury or dead commenly called “widow makers”
An ash covered pit filled with hot ember can be left behind when stumps and large logs burn out. the ash can look like stable ground and ensnare unsuspecting firefighters

Chapter 21 wildland Firefighter skill page 803

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An item of protective equipment configured as an aluminized tent utilized for protection, by meand of reflecting radiant head, in a wildland fire entrapment situation. NFPA 1500
A. Tent
B. Human baked potato
C. Fire Shield
D. Fire Shelter

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D. Fire Shelter

Chapter 21 wildland Firefighter skill page 804

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Most of the effort geared toward reducing the loss from wildland fires need to be directed at?
A. Prevention
B. Research
C. Indirect Attack
D. Direct attack

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A. Prevention

Chapter 21 wildland Firefighter skill page 807, 808

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A Backfire in wildland firefighting is an?
A. Direct attack
B. Indirect attack
C. Pincer attack
D. Flanking attack

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Indirect attack

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the basic guideline for a safety zone should includea minimum separation area of as least ____ times the height of the fire.
A. Two
B. Three
C. Four
D. Five

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C. Four

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