Fire weather forecast for a period greater than five days in advance.

The form used by dispatchers, service personnel, and logistics coordinators to document the request, ordering or release of resources, and the tracking of those resources on an incident.

Personnel and equipment used to control a fire.

Daily, especially pertaining to cyclic actions which are completed within 24 hours, and which recur every 24 hours, such as temperature, relative humidity and wind.

Container, either with rigid frame or self supporting, which can be filled with water or fire chemical mixture from which fire suppression resources can be filled. It can also be a source for charging hose lays from portable pumps or stationary engines.

Dead fuels consisting of roundwood in the size range of 1 to 3 inches (2.5 to 7.6 cm) in diameter and very roughly the layer of litter extending from approximately three-fourths of an inch (1.9 cm) to 4 inches (10 cm) below the surface.

According to the American Meteorological Society, an instrument for measuring atmospheric pressure.

A declared ban on open air burning within a specified area, usually due to sustained high fire danger.

A number in the National Fire Danger Rating System related to potential fire incidence within a protection unit.

An offender who intentionally sets one fire.