Size up - Suppression

Question 0

What does a fire assessment determine?

Answer 0

• Safety concerns
• values at risk
• Tactics
• Resources

Question 1

What are the basic fore Supression principles?

Answer 1

• Fast initial attack (organization and quick deployment)
• Aggressive action
• Prompt and complete mop-up

Question 2

Initial size up should include the following:

Answer 2

• perimeter reconnaissance from air or ground
• account for fuel weather and topography
• Identify where the fire is geographically
• Incorporate safely and ensure safety briefings
• consider values at risks in order to prioritize suppression efforts.

Question 3

What are the components of a Wildfire?

Answer 3

• Point of ignition
• Head fire: advancing with wind/slope
• Back fire: backing into the wind or downslope
• Flanks: outward toward head
• Black: burned area

Question 4

What is the basic approach to fire attack?

Answer 4

• attack where fire is likely to escape
• Remove fuel (control line)
• Remove Air (smother fire with soil/foam)
• Remove heat (by cooling with water)

Question 5

What is a control line?

what about fire line?

Answer 5

• Combination of man made and natural fire barriers

- Fire line is a line constructed by manual labour or machine made line in the ground that is dug down to mineral soil.

Question 6

What are the 3 general attack methods in wildfire control

Answer 6

Direct Attack
- rank 1/rank 2 (Generally used on slow moving fires. Fire is surrounded)
Parallel Attack
- rank 2/3/4 (Generally used on fires with moderate spread. Too intense for access to head fire)
Indirect attack
- Takes advantage of favourable terrain and natural barriers well in advance of the fire perimeter. (several kilometers)

Question 7

What is Mop up?

Answer 7

• Act of reinforcing control line
• Begins as soon as fire or part of fire is under control
• objective to completely extinguish all fire

Question 8

What is cold trailing?

Answer 8

• Method of determining whether a fire is still burning

- Done with hand