Total time required for a specified fuel component to be completely consumed.

Activities that lead to a safe, efficient, and cost-effective fire management program in support of land and resource management objectives through appropriate planning and coordination.

A predetermined maneuver which keeps an aircraft within a specified airspace while awaiting further orders.

A term used to indicate that the airtanker dropping mechanism is set to allow a programmed release of part or all of the load of fire retardant.

Science of deformation and flow of fire retardants and other liquids, especially of the cohesiveness bodies and stress-strain relationship of their particles.

Back step of a wildland or structural fire engine.

A unit of work activity that is a logical and necessary action in the performance of a behavior; how the behavior is demonstrated or performed in a particular context.

A form of high cloud, composed of ice crystals, which seldom obscures the sun.

Pertaining to, or caused by mountains.

The evaluation of the fire to determine a course of action for suppression.