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S-190 Final Exam 100% VERIFIED ANSWERS 2024/2025 CORRECT
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What are the three methods of heat transfer? Radiation conduction Convection What are the three components of a fire triangle Heat Fuel Oxygen What happens when oxygen is removed from the fire triangle? Combustion cannot occur Fire producing sparks or embers that are carried by wind or convection and starts new fires beyond the main fire. Spotting Fire burning without flame and barely spreading Smoldering Fire spreading rapidly with a well defined head. Running When is fire controlled? When the fire is expected to hold under reasonable conditions.
List examples of a barrier: Rock-Slide, River, Lake, Road, Fireline, Green Field, etc. T or F? A north facing aspect will have more fire activity than a south facing aspect. F Name two types of canyons that can result in extreme fire behavior. Box Canyon Narrow Canyon List the six basic fuel types: Grass Grass-Shrub Shrub Timber-Litter Timber-Understory Slash-Blowdown What are the two types of horizontal arrangements of fuel? Uniform Patchy The vertical arrangement of ladder fuels describes what? Fuels that link surface materials to the upper canopy. List indicators that fire behavior is increasing Torching Flare-ups Crowning Increased rate of spread Increase in spotting What are indicators to be aware of that can lead to increased fire behavior?
Cold Frontal passage Shifting winds Increases winds Erratic winds What factor influences fire spread more than any other? Wind List weather factors which may produce rapid fire spread Thunderstorms Frontal passage Fire whirls Dust devils Foehn Winds Relative humidity is usually at its lowest in the: Mid-afternoon As relative humidity decreases fuel moisture Decreases Hazards of a thunderstorm include: Strong winds Lightning Erratic fire behavior The moisture content of which type of fuel is most affected by change in relative humidity? Grass List dangerous conditions that can develop when a fire is burning in a steep narrow canyon? Preheating Spotting Rolling material
Increased rate of spread Wind influences