Wildland Fire Incident Management Guide (2014)


Key features
- •Risk Management
- •Wildland Fire Safety Culture and Principles
- •Clothing and Personal Protective Equipment
- •Fatigue, Nutrition, and Hydration
- •Driving Limitations
- •Smoke Impairment of Roads: Assessment and Response
- •Carbon Monoxide Poisoning
- •Injury and Fatality Procedures
- •Burn Injury Procedures
- •Night Operations
- •Firing Equipment
- •Chain Saws
- •Incident-Generated Hazmat
- •Media Access Guidelines: General Policy and Guidelines
- •Safety Responsibilities of Wildland Fire Supervisors
- •Initial Attack
- •Duties of an Initial Attack Incident Commander
- •Fire Suppression Strategies
- •Initial Attack Safety Checklist
- •Extended Attack
- •Characteristics of an Extended Attack Incident
- •Extended Attack Safety Checklist
- •Large Fire Management Teams
- •Area Command, Unified Command, and Transfer of Command
- •Incident Commander Briefing
- •Incident Commander's Checklist
- •Urban Interface
- •Wildland/Urban Interface "Watch Out" Situations
- •Structure Triage Guidelines
- •Structure Assessment Checklist and Structure Protection Guidelines
- •Command and General Staff, Operations, Air Operations, Planning, Logistics, Finance and Administration, and Demobilization
- •Organization Chart
- •Position Checklists
- •Planning
- •Planning Process
- •Factors to Consider When Locating and Laying Out an Incident Base or Camp
- •Portable Pumps and Hydraulics
- •Formula for Determining Pump Pressure
- •Reminders for Using Portable Pumps and Hose Lays
- •Drafting Guidelines
- •Expected Output of Commonly Used Portable Pumps at Sea Level
- •General Rules for Fireline Hydraulics
- •Friction Loss by Hose Size and Type
- •Foam-Foam Use, Foam Mixture Rates, Foam for Direct Attack, Foam for Indirect Attack, Foam for Mop Up, Foam for Exposure Protection, and Foam Safety
- •Advantages and Disadvantages of Fireline Explosives
- •Hazmat Checklist for Incident Base Management
- •Use of Inmate Crews
- •Interagency Crew Qualifications and Equipment Standards
- •Minimum Crew Standards for National Mobilization
- •Engine and Water Tender Typing (Minimum Requirements)
- •Common Additional Needs for Engines and Tenders
- •Air Tankers
- •Helicopters
- •ICS Map Display Symbols
- •Conversion Factors for Map Scale
- •Formula for Area and Circumference of a Circle
- •Acreage Determination Factors
- •Conversion Factors
- •Incident Command System Forms
- •Resource Status Card
- •Distances and Formulas for Estimating Fire Size
- •What the Color and Column of Smoke May Mean
- •Fire Suppression Interpretations from Flame Length
- •Wildland Fire Risk and Complexity Assessment
- •Indicators of Incident Complexity
BrandCREATESPACE
CategoryFire Science
Wildland Fire Incident Management Guide (2014)
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Four Stars
nicholas j tennis•October 5, 2017
good reference book
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Lori•June 8, 2017
Excellent book







