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INTERAGENCY SINGLE ENGINE AIR TANKER OPERATIONS GUIDE
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Fireline: The part of a control line that is scraped or dug to mineral soil;
sometimes called fire trail.
Fire management: All activities required for the protection of burnable forest
values from fire, and the use of fire to meet land management goals and
objectives.
Fire perimeter: The fire boundary at a given moment.
Fire progress map: A map maintained to show at given times the location of
the fire, deployment of suppression forces and progress of suppression.
Fire retardant: Any substance except plain water that by chemical or physical
action reduces flammability of fuels or slows their rate of combustion.
Fire review: Process of analyzing the fire management action on a given unit
or the specific action taken on a given fire to identify reasons for both good and
poor results and recommend ways of doing a more effective job.
Fire scar: (1) A healing or healed injury or wound caused or accentuated by
fire on a woody plant. (2) The scar made on a landscape by fire.
Fire season: The period(s) of the year during which fires are likely to occur,
spread and do sufficient damage to warrant organized fire control.
Fire shelter: An aluminized, heat reflective, firefighters personal protective
pup tent used in fire entrapment situations.
Firestorm: Violent convection caused by a large continuous area of intense
fire. Often characterized by destructively violent surface in-drafts beyond the
perimeter and sometimes by tornado-like whirlwinds.
Fire suppression organization: (1) The management structure designed to
enable carrying out line and staff duties of the incident commander with
increases in size and complexity of the suppression. (2) All supervisory and
facilitating personnel assigned to fire suppression duty under the direction of an
incident commander.
Fire tool cache: A supply of tools and equipment assembled in planned
quantities or standard units at a strategic point for fire suppression use.
Fire trap: (1) An accumulation of highly flammable fuels. (2) A situation in
which firefighting is highly dangerous.
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