Basic Wildland Firefighting Training 2025 update
|comprehensive questions and verified answers
(complete solutions) ASSURED SUCCESS|GRADE A+!!
an unplanned or unwanted natural or human-caused fire, or a prescribed fire
that threatens to escape its bounds - (ANSWER)Wildfire
purposely starting a fire that puts a home or others at risk - (ANSWER)ACA 5-38-
302
agency responsible for forest fire supression - (ANSWER)Forestry Commission
ACA 5-38-310 becomes a violation - (ANSWER)When a fire crosses onto another
perons property
Time, location, owner, agent - (ANSWER)When notifying AFC of a controlled burn
give the following
Damages are doubled - (ANSWER)In a civil action where a person's property
does not need permission of the landowner - (ANSWER)Fire fighters working
under direction of AFC on private property
combustion - (ANSWER)The act of burning is called
, fuel, heat, oxygen - (ANSWER)This must be present for combustion to occur
radiation, convection, conduction - (ANSWER)Fire spreads by three heat transfer
methods
Radiant heat - (ANSWER)This will push heat ahead of the fire pulling moisture
and making fuel easy to ignite
Convection - (ANSWER)this will pull oxygen in from all sides pushing heated air
upward making more oxygen for fire (causes embers to create spot fires)
Conduction - (ANSWER)heat transfers through root systems
Fuel, weather, topography - (ANSWER)Environmental influences on fires
small/light fuels - (ANSWER)sage grass, light brush, vines
large/heavy fuels - (ANSWER)hardwood and softwood trees
relative humidity - (ANSWER)Most important of environmental factors and first
thing to check when fighting wildfires
more humidity - (ANSWER)a fire burns slower with
|comprehensive questions and verified answers
(complete solutions) ASSURED SUCCESS|GRADE A+!!
an unplanned or unwanted natural or human-caused fire, or a prescribed fire
that threatens to escape its bounds - (ANSWER)Wildfire
purposely starting a fire that puts a home or others at risk - (ANSWER)ACA 5-38-
302
agency responsible for forest fire supression - (ANSWER)Forestry Commission
ACA 5-38-310 becomes a violation - (ANSWER)When a fire crosses onto another
perons property
Time, location, owner, agent - (ANSWER)When notifying AFC of a controlled burn
give the following
Damages are doubled - (ANSWER)In a civil action where a person's property
does not need permission of the landowner - (ANSWER)Fire fighters working
under direction of AFC on private property
combustion - (ANSWER)The act of burning is called
, fuel, heat, oxygen - (ANSWER)This must be present for combustion to occur
radiation, convection, conduction - (ANSWER)Fire spreads by three heat transfer
methods
Radiant heat - (ANSWER)This will push heat ahead of the fire pulling moisture
and making fuel easy to ignite
Convection - (ANSWER)this will pull oxygen in from all sides pushing heated air
upward making more oxygen for fire (causes embers to create spot fires)
Conduction - (ANSWER)heat transfers through root systems
Fuel, weather, topography - (ANSWER)Environmental influences on fires
small/light fuels - (ANSWER)sage grass, light brush, vines
large/heavy fuels - (ANSWER)hardwood and softwood trees
relative humidity - (ANSWER)Most important of environmental factors and first
thing to check when fighting wildfires
more humidity - (ANSWER)a fire burns slower with
