NWCG Glossary of Wildland Fire, PMS 205

Obtaining resources necessary to obtain, store, and grow out photosynthesizing living organisms.

An event dealing with the agency's law enforcement program. Includes non-fire infrared flights, surveillance, etc.

A compound or substance that has been purified or prepared.

Not open

The disguising of sensitive sites by painting or covering them to make them blend in with their surroundings.

An event dealing with agency-specific administrative programs, such as public relations.

The systematic approach to gathering and measuring information from a variety of sources to get a complete and accurate picture of an area of interest.

Further refines wildfire cause supporting data, providing information for prevention programs for targeted messaging.

Give notice of hazard or caution.

Verbal, graphical, or written information sharing with internal and external audiences.

Function that oversees a group of individual projects linked together through a shared organizational goal or a common area of impact.

A living organism.

The evaluation or estimation of the nature, quality, or ability of someone or something.

A useful thing or quality to be put back after loss.

Actions that affect fuel or vegetative conditions, community adaptation, public safety, or public land access through their completion.

Actions necessary to conduct a future treatment or evaluate the success of a completed treatment that do not affect fuel or vegetative conditions, community adaptation, public safety, or public land access through their completion.

An event dealing with a critical incident event. Critical Incident Stress Management (CISM)/Peer Support is the selection and implementation of the most appropriate crisis intervention tactics to best respond to the needs of the situation. CISM has multiple components other than responding after a critical incident occurs. These components can be used before, during, and after a crisis. They include a wide range of various activities, including PreIncident Education (PIE), which provides for resiliency, planning and preparedness, acute crisis management, and post-incident follow up. 

Produced by machinery

A useful thing or quality to be put back after loss.

A useful thing or quality to be fixed or mended.

An event, usually managed by organizations external to the fire community, for which the primary focus is for dealing with a hazardous situation that poses an unreasonable risk to health, safety, and property.

A useful thing or quality to be fixed or mended.

Development and composition of written communication instruments.

An event, usually managed by organizations external to the fire community, for which the primary focus is the search, rescue and/or recovery of people or things. This category includes missing persons, entrapments, etc.

A community or public service event, managed by an organization external to the fire community, which requires resource support from the fire community. This category includes VIP visits, law enforcement activities, concerts, conventions, parades, road/bridge closures, etc. 

An event, usually managed by organizations external to the fire community, for which the primary focus is managing emergency situationscreated by severe weather or natural disaster.

An event, managed by one of the fire agency's other (non-fire) program areas, for accomplishing activities deemed necessary by agency management. 

A permanent 24-hour observing station.

Actions taken to conform with legal requirements.

A useful thing or quality to be fixed or mended.

An event, responded to and/or managed by the wildland fire management community, which addresses certain activities and responses undertaken by the wildland fire management community in conjunction with existing or potential fire event(s). 

An event, usually managed by organizations external to the fire community, for which the primary focus is for dealing with an accident and assistance to potential victims. This category includes accidents such as: automobile, aircraft, train, watercraft, and industrial.

An event, usually managed by organizations external to the fire community, for which the primary focus is for dealing with a hazardous situation that poses an unreasonable risk to health, safety, and property.

An event, responded to and/or managed by the wildland fire community, where an ignition resulting in sustained combustion occurred. 

A scheduled activity that provides instruction to make attendees fit, qualified, or proficient in a particular area. This is a planned event.

An organizational subdivision established to divide the incident management structure into functional areas of operation. Groups are composed of resources assembled to perform a special function not necessarily within a single geographic area.

Burning of any fuel outdoors without the use of mechanical combustion enhancements.

To detach two pieces of hose by backing the swivel thread off the nipple thread.

A small ridge which extends finger-like from a main ridge.

Any obstruction to the spread of fire. Typically an area or strip devoid of combustible fuel.

A course or courses that must be completed prior to initiating a position task book. Training which has been identified as required cannot be challenged; an agency equivalent course may be used as a substitute when the course meets or exceeds a required course's learning and performance objectives. 

The number and size of fires historically experienced on a given unit over a given period (usually one day) at a given index of fire danger.

Pollutants deemed most harmful to public health and welfare and that can be monitored effectively. They include carbon monoxide (CO), lead (Pb), nitrogen oxides (Nox), sulfur dioxide (SO2), ozone (O3), particulate matter (PM) of aerodynamic diameter less than or equal to 10 micrometers (PM10) and particulate matter of aerodynamic diameter less than or equal to 2.5 micrometers (PM2.5). 

Firefighting assistance given to adjacent areas and nearby communities by contract or other agreement that covers conditions and payment for assistance rendered and services performed. Contrasted to mutual aid, in which neighboring firefighting organizations assist each other without charge.