Personnel assigned to supervisory positions, including incident commander, command staff, general staff, branch directors, supervisors, unit leaders, managers and staff.

Advanced life support skills performed by an EMS practitioner or service, e.g. intravenous fluids and drug administration.

A self-contained unit consisting of a water tank, fire pump, and hose specially designed to be carried on a logging skidder for use in forest fire suppression.

A period of relatively long duration with substantially below-normal precipitation, usually occurring over a large area.

Chronological listing of the dates of fires documented in a designated area, the dates being corrected by crossdating. Size of the area must be specified.

All actions taken to stop the spread of fire.

A scale drawing showing information about a fire scene.

The response of one attack unit to a fire or other emergency with no regard for the number of return trips to that same fire or emergency.

Application of herbicide to desiccate living vegetation prior to burning.

The smaller area within the general origin area where the fire's direction of spread was first influenced by fuel, weather, and/or topography.