Wildland Firefighter Training
Questions With Verified Answers
\.Anchor Point - Answer-An advantageous location, usually a barrier to fire spread, from which
to start constructing a fire line.
The anchor point is used to minimize the chance of being flanked by the fire while the line is
being constructed.
\.Flanking Fire Suppression - Answer-Attacking a fire by working along the flanks either
simultaneously or successively from a less active or anchor point and endeavoring to connect
two lines at the head
\.Grass Fire - Answer-Is any fire in which the predominant fuel is grass or grass-like.
\.Head of a fire - Answer-The most rapidly spreading portion of a fire's perimeter, usually to the
leeward or up slope
\.Flash Fuels - Answer-Highly combustible fine fuels such as grass, leaves, draped pine needles,
fern, tree moss and some kinds of slash, which ignite readily and are consumed rapidly when
dry.
\.Rear of a fire - Answer-That portion of a fire spreading directly into the wind or down slope;
that portion of a fire edge opposite the head; slowest spreading portion of a fire edge; also
called heel of a fire.
, \.Three elements of the fire triangle. - Answer-Fuel, Air, Heat.
Fuel (to burn); Air (to supply oxygen for the flame); Heat (to start & continue the combustion
process)
\.Three methods of heat transfer. - Answer-Radiation, Convection, Conduction.
\.Radiation - Answer-Think of radiant heat as a ray or wave. Example: Radiant heat warms you
as you stand close to a campfire or in the sunlight.
Radiant heat can dry surrounding fuels and sometimes ignite them
\.Convection - Answer-Think of convection as a smoke column above a fire. Convection occurs
when lighter warm air moves upward. The hot gases and embers, which compose the smoke
column, can dry and ignite other fuels.
\.Conduction - Answer-Heat is moved from one fuel source to another through direct contact.
\.6 (major) Fuel Types - Answer-• Grass
• Grass - Shrub
• Shrub
• Timber - Understory
• Timber Litter
• Slash - Blowdown
\.A simple definition of FUEL is any burnable (combustible) material. - Answer-Such as: live
and/or dead plant material.
Questions With Verified Answers
\.Anchor Point - Answer-An advantageous location, usually a barrier to fire spread, from which
to start constructing a fire line.
The anchor point is used to minimize the chance of being flanked by the fire while the line is
being constructed.
\.Flanking Fire Suppression - Answer-Attacking a fire by working along the flanks either
simultaneously or successively from a less active or anchor point and endeavoring to connect
two lines at the head
\.Grass Fire - Answer-Is any fire in which the predominant fuel is grass or grass-like.
\.Head of a fire - Answer-The most rapidly spreading portion of a fire's perimeter, usually to the
leeward or up slope
\.Flash Fuels - Answer-Highly combustible fine fuels such as grass, leaves, draped pine needles,
fern, tree moss and some kinds of slash, which ignite readily and are consumed rapidly when
dry.
\.Rear of a fire - Answer-That portion of a fire spreading directly into the wind or down slope;
that portion of a fire edge opposite the head; slowest spreading portion of a fire edge; also
called heel of a fire.
, \.Three elements of the fire triangle. - Answer-Fuel, Air, Heat.
Fuel (to burn); Air (to supply oxygen for the flame); Heat (to start & continue the combustion
process)
\.Three methods of heat transfer. - Answer-Radiation, Convection, Conduction.
\.Radiation - Answer-Think of radiant heat as a ray or wave. Example: Radiant heat warms you
as you stand close to a campfire or in the sunlight.
Radiant heat can dry surrounding fuels and sometimes ignite them
\.Convection - Answer-Think of convection as a smoke column above a fire. Convection occurs
when lighter warm air moves upward. The hot gases and embers, which compose the smoke
column, can dry and ignite other fuels.
\.Conduction - Answer-Heat is moved from one fuel source to another through direct contact.
\.6 (major) Fuel Types - Answer-• Grass
• Grass - Shrub
• Shrub
• Timber - Understory
• Timber Litter
• Slash - Blowdown
\.A simple definition of FUEL is any burnable (combustible) material. - Answer-Such as: live
and/or dead plant material.
