 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs - 1957 - 1848 pages
...voluminous notes, maps, photographs, analyses of weather records, fuel-moisture measurements, flre-behavlor observations, information on training and experience...be halted when it reaches the fireline. Sometimes a nreline is located some distance from the main fire, and then the intervening vegetation and fuels... | |
 | Michael John Archer - 2005 - 420 pages
...intensity of a small tornado. Fixed Wing Aircraft: Planes that take off horizontally from a runway. Flanks of a Fire: The parts of a fire's perimeter that are roughly parallel to the main direction of spread. FLIR: Forward-Looking InfraRed. Sensors mounted on firebombers and spotters to locate fire.... | |
 | Daniel S. Widener - Nature - 2006 - 252 pages
...or successively from a less active or anchor point and endeavoring to connect two lines at the head. Flanks of a Fire The parts of a fire's perimeter that are roughly parallel to the main direction of spread. Flapper Fire suppression tool, sometimes improvised, used in direct attack for smothering out... | |
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A unit of a complex fire perimeter between designated topographical or cultural features (such as ridges, streams, and roads) organized into two or more sectors for control. Fire trail. — Same as fireline. See Handline. Fire weather. — Weather factors... 