NWCG Glossary of Wildland Fire, PMS 205

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

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.

A permanent 24-hour observing station.

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. 

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

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

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

A useful thing or quality to be fixed or mended.

A useful thing or quality to be fixed or mended.

Actions taken to conform with legal requirements.

Development and composition of written communication instruments.

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.

A useful thing or quality to be fixed or mended.

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

Produced by machinery

Give notice of hazard or caution.

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.

A fire in which a solid flame develops in the crowns of trees, but the surface and crown phases advance as a linked unit dependent on each other.

Water with added chemicals, called wetting agents, that increase water's spreading and penetrating properties due to a reduction in surface tension.

Fire hose with a smooth inner coating of rubber or plastic to reduce friction loss.

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

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

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

Composition of fuel laterally across the landscape.

Describes how strongly a fire investigator holds an opinion or conclusion, includes two levels, Possible and Probable.

An event dealing with maintenance of licenses, currencies, or proficiencies, including recurring proficiencies. 

According to the American Meteorological Society, the layer of air near a boundary that is affected by friction against that boundary surface, and possibly by transport of heat and other variables across that surface.

According to the American Meteorological Society, the average temperature of the air as indicated by a properly exposed thermometer during a given time period, usually a day, a month, or a year.

The hours of a day (a daily tour-of-duty) and the days of an administrative workweek (a weekly tour-of-duty) that constitutes an employee's regularly scheduled administrative workweek.

Of, or pertaining to, measurement by weight.

Management of wildfire or prescribed fire to meet resource objectives specified in land/resource management plans.

Apparatus utilizing an air compressor and positive displacement pump coupled to the same engine, plumbed to a non-pressurized tank, for producing foam. The operation involves injecting compressed air into a liquid stream containing a suitable foaming agent.

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). 

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.