A temporary location for available resources in which personnel, supplies, and equipment await operational assignment.

A sampling of upper air conditions made by means of instruments and a small radio transmitter on a free balloon. Automatic radio signals originated by action of weather instruments are sent to a ground receiver. These signals are interpreted for use in analyzing and predicting upper air conditions over a wide area of the earth. Weather elements determined at a number of altitude points as the balloon rises are temperature, atmospheric moisture, pressure, wind direction and speed. Similar soundings may be made using fixed balloons or tethersondes.

A device carried aloft by a balloon equipped with measuring instruments that automatically convert temperature, pressure, and humidity data into electrical impulses and transmit this information to a ground recorder.

Dropping of equipment or supplies, with or without a parachute, from an aircraft in flight.

A plant that lives for one growing season, starting from a seed each year.

A plant that lives for more than two growing seasons. For fire danger rating purposes, biennial plants are classed with perennial plants.

Qualified firefighters, together with their equipment and material, used to suppress wildland fires.

Oral or written statement tending to link its maker to involvement in a particular crime.

The most common type of hose attached and stored on wildland engine booster reels. The hose is made of neoprene and does not appreciably collapse when stored empty.

Term used in resource planning/following to estimate time of arrival at a point.