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Wildland Flashcards

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Briefing Checklist

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Situation
Mission/execution
Communication
Service/support
Risk management
Questions

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What is the most essential of successful wildland firefighting

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Component and confident leadership

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In confusing and uncertain situations a good operational leader will do what?

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Take charge
Assess situation
Motivate
Demonstrate initiative
Communicate
Supervise

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Follow up to the previous question
3 things important to leadership

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Duty
Respect
Integrity

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What are examples of Duty

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-Be proficient in your job, both technically and as a leader.
-Make sound and timely decisions
- Ensure task are understood,supervised and accomplished.
- Develop your subordinates for the future

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What are examples of Respect

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-Know your subordinates and look out for their wellbeing
-keep them informed
- Build the team

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Leaders intent should have three things

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Task= what is to be done
Purpose= why is it to be done
End state= how it should look when it’s done

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Human barrier factors to situational awareness

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-Low experience level with local factors
-Distraction from primary task
-Fatigue
-stress reaction
- hazardous attitudes

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What should an AAR have?

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What was planned?
What actually happened?
Why did it happen ?
What can we do next time?

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What is the green section of the IRPG

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Operational engagement

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What is the risk management checklist?

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-Identify hazards
-assess Hazards
-Develop Controls and make risk decisions
- implement controls
-Supervise and evaluate

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How to plan for medical emergencies on the line?

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  1. What are we going to do if someone gets hurt
  2. How will we get them out of here
  3. How long will it take to get them to the hospital.
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Common denominator for fire fatalities

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  1. On relatively small fires or deceptively quiet areas on large fires.
  2. Light fuels
  3. Unexpected wind shift
  4. When fire responds to topographic conditions and runs uphill.
  5. Critical burn period between 1400-1700
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Common tactical hazards

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Position
Situation

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What is a safety zone?

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Where a firefighter can survive without a fire shelter.
Distance is 4 times the flame length away.

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Downhill checklist

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It should not be attempted unless no other tactical alternatives.
1. Discuss assignments with crew supervisor.
2.decision made after crew supervisor has scouted it.
3.LCES in place
4.use direct attack whenever possible
5.fire line will not lie in a chimney or chute
6. Starting point will be anchored
7. Monitor Fire from below and attack if possible

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What are the structure triage categories

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Defensible- prep and hold
Defensible- stand alone
Non defensible- Prep and leave
Non defensible- prep and leave
Non defensible- rescue drive by

18
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Structure protection tactics

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-Rapid mitigation measures
-Equipment and water use
- Patrol following the fire front

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How to properly refuse a risk

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  1. There is a violation of safe work practices
    2.environmental conditions make the work unsafe
  2. They lack the necessary qualifications or experience
  3. Defective equipment is being used
20
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Hazard tree safety

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Situation awareness-one of the most common risks in wildland firefighting
Environment
Steep slope
Diseased tree
Domino
Bug kill areas

21
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Last resort survival

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  1. Escape if you can
  2. Find a survivable area
  3. Pick a fire department shelter area
    4.expect
22
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Hazmat isolation distances

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  • minor event ( 1 drum)=150 feet
  • Major event 1or more=500 feet
    -residential or commercial= 300 feet
    -open areas= 1000 feet
    BLEVE=2500 feet
23
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Hazmat clarification for fixed

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Health Hazard- blue ( 4 most dangerous)
Fire Hazard- red ( 4 below 73 1 above 200)
Yellow reactivity- 5 may detonate 0 stable
Specific hazard- white

24
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Fire Behavior Hauling chart

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Flame length less than 4=fire can be attacked by hand tools by the flanks or the head
4 ft -8 FT= fire is to intense for direct attack with hand tools. Dozers, engines might be better
8-11FT=Fire might present serious problems. Torching, spotting and crowning might be
Over 11FT- crowning spotting probable. Control efforts at head of fire are ineffective.

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What is the Haines index?

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Used to indicate the potential for rapid fire growth.
Score from
2 to 6
2= very low potential
6=high potential

26
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What is the Beaufort scale?

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For estimating 20 ft wind speeds.
Wind class from 1-8
1. Less than 3 mph
8. Over 39 mph

27
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Alignments and patterns for dangerous fire behavior?

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Drought
Hot dry unstable days
Inversion breaks
Wind-dry-Unstable days
Thunderstorms
Foehn/ downslope and mtn wave events

28
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Strategy Direct attack

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Advantages-minimal area burned
Safest place to work for firefighters

Disadvantages-FF can be hampered by heat and smoke
Control lines can be very long and irregular
Mop up and patrol is usually required

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