Ground facilities for mixing, storing, and loading fire retardant into airtankers.

Fire retardants mixed with water and stored in tanks at air attack bases for immediate use by airtankers.

Refers to dry chemical retardants stored at air attack bases and available for mixing with water.

All activities for the management of wildland fires to meet land management objectives. Fire management includes the entire scope of activities from planning, prevention, fuels or vegetation modification, prescribed fire, hazard mitigation, fire response, rehabilitation, monitoring and evaluation. 

The increase in strength of a fire management organization.

Costs incurred by an agency that address the sole concern of only the agency or are not incurred with mutual benefit. Agency specific costs are not shared.

A device used to determine the burning index for different combinations of burning index factors.

Fire which has exceeded or is expected to exceed initial attack capabilities or prescription.

The accelerated spreading of a fire with time.

Person who travels along ridges or other vantage points to discover, detect, report, and suppress fires.