Wildfire Vocab Crossword Puzzle

QUESTIONS LIST:

• drop zone : target area for air tankers, heli-tankers, and cargo dropping.
• buffer zones : an area of reduced vegetation that separates wild lands from vulnerable residential or business developments.
• cold trailing : a method of controlling a partly dead fire edge by carefully inspecting and feeling with the hand for heat to detect any fire, digging out every live spot, and trenching any live edge.
• wet line : a line of water, or water and chemical retardant, sprayed along the ground, that serves as a temporary control line from which to ignite or stop a low-intensity fire.
• water tender : a ground vehicle capable of transporting specified quantities of water
• backfire : a fire set along the inner edge of a fire-line to consume the fuel in the path of a wildfire and/or change the direction of force of the fire's convection column.
• aspect : direction toward which a slope faces.
• fusee : a colored flare designed as a railway warning device and widely used to ignite suppression and prescription fires.
• ground fuel : all combustible materials below the surface litter, including duff, tree or shrub roots, punchy wood, peat, and sawdust, that normally support a glowing combustion without flame.
• drip torch : hand-held device for igniting fires by dripping flaming liquid fuel on the materials to be burned; consists of a fuel fount, burner arm, and igniter. fuel used is generally a mixture of diesel and gasoline
• flaming front : the zone of a moving fire where the combustion is primarily flaming. behind this flaming zone combustion is primarily glowing.
• coyote tactics : a progressive line construction duty involving self-sufficient crews that build fire line until the end of the operational period.
• sling load : any cargo carried beneath a helicopter and attached by a lead line and swivel.
• air tanker : a fixed-wing aircraft equipped to drop fire retardants or suppressants.
• wind vectors : wind directions used to calculate fire behavior.
• backpack pump : a portable sprayer with hand-pump, fed from a liquid-filled container fitted with straps, used mainly in fire and pest control