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Wildland Urban Interface

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A condition where structures abut the wildland.

Usually identified as housing tracts or developments adjacent to a wildland area.

There is a greater potential for house-to- house ignition.

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Wildland Urban Intermix

Back 2

A situation where structures are scattered throughout a wildland area.

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Leader’s Intent

Back 3

A clear, concise statement about the mission’s overall tasks, purpose, and expected results.

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Wildland Fire Leadership Values and Principles

Duty

Back 4

Be proficient in your job, both technically and as a leader.

Make sound and timely decisions.

Ensure tasks are understood, supervised, and accomplished.

Develop your people for the future.

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Wildland Fire Leadership Values and Principles

Respect

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Know your people and look out for their well-being.

Keep your people informed.

Build the team.

Employ your people in accordance with their capabilities.

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Wildland Fire Leadership Values and Principles

Integerty

Back 6

Know yourself and seek improvement.

Seek responsibility and accept responsibility for your actions.

Set the example.

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Situational Awareness

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The ability to identify, process, and comprehend the critical elements of information about what is happening with regards to the mission, allowing organizations and individuals to anticipate requirements and to react effectively and safely.

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Appropriate Action

Back 8

The action necessary under the incident objectives when situations change or communication with command and control functions cannot be established.

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Wildland Fire Behavior Influences

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Fuel

Weather

Topography

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Burnover

Back 10

An event in which a fire moves through a location and overtakes personnel or equipment where there is no opportunity to utilize escape routes and safety zones, often resulting in personal injury, death, or equipment damage.

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Diurnal Wind

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Daily warming of surface creates upslope and up canyon

Evening cooling causes downslope and down canyon

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Foehn (Föhn) Winds (Pronounced “Fern”)

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Foehn winds are usually associated with mountainous regions where a high pressure system occurs on one side of the mountain range and a corresponding low pressure system or trough occurs on the other.

Santa Ana's

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Plume Dominated Fire

Back 13

A wildland fire situation where the heat and intensity of the convection column overpowers the influence of the prevailing wind.

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Area Ignition

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Ignition of several individual fires throughout an area either simultaneously or in rapid succession and so spaced that they add to and influence the main body of the fire to produce a hot, fast-spreading fire condition. Also called simultaneous ignition.

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Fire Weather Watch

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A warning issued to advise of conditions which could result in extensive wildland fire occurrence or extreme fire behavior, which are expected to develop in the next 12 to 48 hours, but not more than 72 hours. In cases of dry lightning, a Fire Weather Watch may be issued for the next 12 hours.

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Red Flag Warning

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A term used by fire weather forecasters to alert forecast users to an ongoing or imminent critical fire weather pattern.

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Incident Objectives

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Statements of guidance and direction necessary for the selection of appropriate strategy(s), and the tactical direction of resources. Incident objectives are based upon agency administrators direction and constraints. Incident objectives must be achievable and measurable, yet flexible enough to allow for strategic and tactical alternatives.

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Incident Objectives "SMART" Characteristics

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SPECIFIC

MEASURABLE

ACHIEVABLE

REALISTIC

TIME SENSITIVE

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Unified Command

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A unified team effort which allows all agencies with jurisdictional responsibility for the incident, either geographical or functional, to manage an incident by establishing a common set of incident objectives and strategies in a common incident action plan (IAP), implemented by a single operations section chief.

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ICS General Staff

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Operations

Logistics

Planning

Finance

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ICS Command Staff

Back 21

IC

PIO

Liaison

Safety

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Structure Triage

Back 22

The process of inspect- ing and classifying structures according to their defensibility or non-defensibility, based on fire behavior, loca- tion, construction, and adjacent fuels.

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STRUCTURE TRIAGE CATEGORIES

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Not Threatened

Threatened Defensible

Threatened Non-Defensible

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S-FACTS STRUCTURE TRIAGE CHECK LIST

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S – Survival

F – Fire Environment

A – Access

C – Construction / Clearance

T – Time Constraints

S – Stay or Go

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Primary Structure Defense Tactics

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Check and Go

Prep and Go

Prep and Defend

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Secondary Structure Defense Tactics

Back 26

Bump and Run

Fire Front Following

Anchor and Hold

Connect the Dots

Tactical Patrol

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STRUCTURE DEFENSE CATEGORY

APPROPRIATE TACTICAL ACTIONS

Not Threatened

Back 27

Prep and Defend

Tactical Patrol

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STRUCTURE DEFENSE CATEGORY

APPROPRIATE TACTICAL ACTIONS

Threatened Defensible

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Prep and Defend

Bump and Run

Anchor and Hold

Connect the Dots

Tactical Patrol

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STRUCTURE DEFENSE CATEGORY

APPROPRIATE TACTICAL ACTIONS

Threatened Non-defensible

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Check and Go
Prep and Go
Fire Front Following Tactical Patrol

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P-A-C-E Tactical Planning

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P - Primary Plan (Offense)

A - Alternate Plan (Offense)

C - Contingency Plan (Defense)

E - Emergency Plan (Defense)

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Safety Zone

Back 31

A pre-planned area
of sufficient size and suitable location
that is expected to protect personnel and equipment from known hazards without using fire shelters.

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Temporary Refuge Area

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A pre-planned area where firefighters can immediately take refuge for temporary shelter and short-term relief without using a fire shelter.