Booster hose carried full of water during mild weather to speed discharge of water on fire without filling or priming from tank.

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

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

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

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). 

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

Of, or pertaining to, measurement by weight.

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.

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.

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.