Detailed information needed to complete each task including step-by-step explanations, checklists, diagrams and other relevant information. Job aids are for use by trainees as an on-the-job training tool and as a field operational tool for qualified personnel.

The maximum geographic limits of spread within which a wildland fire is allowed to spread.

Any vehicle capable of transporting a specified number of personnel in a specified manner.

Maximum external stress load (in pounds) with full fuel and pilot in calm air at standard atmospheric temperature.

A device that computes the probable rate of spread of a fire for different combinations of fuel moisture, wind speed, and other selected factors.

The act or system of discovering and locating fires.

The actual rate of decrease of temperature with elevation.

Individual lightning or railroad fires, especially when several are started within a short time.

Ratio of the amount of water to the amount of dry plant material in shrubs.

Piling slash resulting from logging or fuel management activities and subsequently burning the individual piles.