Arrangement of connected lengths of fire hose and accessories on the ground, beginning at the first pumping unit and ending at the point of water delivery.

Any premeditated, unlawful act dangerous to human life or public welfare that is intended to intimidate or coerce civilian populations or governments.

The likelihood a wildland fire event will require mobilization of additional resources from outside the area in which the fire situation originates.

Sum of constant danger and variable danger factors affecting the inception, spread, and resistance to control, and subsequent fire damage; often expressed as an index.

A fire management system that integrates the effects of selected fire danger factors into one or more qualitative or numerical indices of current protection needs.

A public information description of the relative severity of the current fire danger situation.

Procedure by which the flow from two fire pumps is combined into one hose line.

The policies and practices implemented by air and natural resource managers directed at minimizing the amount of smoke entering populated areas or impacting sensitive sites, avoiding significant deterioration of air quality and violations of National Ambient Air Quality Standards, and mitigating human-caused visibility impacts in Class I areas. 

Refers to federal, state, and local cooperative fire programs.

A steel tracked vehicle with or without a front mounted blade equipped with a plow for exposing mineral soil. Sometimes a tractor plow with a front mounted blade is referred to as a dozer plow.