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2. Interagency Fire Qualifications Rating - Wikipedia

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   An Interagency Fire Qualifications Card or a "Red Card" is a small card issued to wildland firefighters in the United States at the beginning of each season by their home unit. The card contains information as to which wildland fire positions (outlined in NWCG Publication PMS 310-1 ) the person is both fully qualified at and which positions ...

3. Glossary of firefighting - Wikipedia

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   Alarm: (1) system for detecting and reporting unusual conditions, such as smoke, fire, flood, loss of air, HAZMAT release, etc.; (2) a specific assignment of multiple fire companies and/or units to a particular incident, usually of fire in nature; (3) centralized dispatch center for interpreting alarms and dispatching resources.

4. Volunteer fire department - Wikipedia

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   Volunteer fire department. A volunteer fire department ( VFD) is a fire department of volunteers who perform fire suppression and other related emergency services for a local jurisdiction. Volunteer and retained (on-call) firefighters are expected to be on call to respond to emergency calls for long periods of time, and are summoned to the fire ...

5. Firefighting - Wikipedia

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   Firefighting is a profession aimed at controlling and extinguishing fire. [1] A person who engages in firefighting is known as a firefighter or fireman. [2] Firefighters typically undergo a high degree of technical training. [2] [3] This involves structural firefighting and wildland firefighting. Specialized training includes aircraft ...

6. Glossary of wildfire terms - Wikipedia

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   A fire set along the inner edge of a fireline to consume the fuel in the path of a wildfire and to change the direction or force of the fire’s convection column. A collapsible bucket used for lifting and moving water or fire retardant with a helicopter. Any obstruction to the spread of fire.

7. World Firefighters Games - Wikipedia

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   The World Firefighter Games is an international sporting event that welcomes all full-time, part-time and volunteer structural firefighters and bush firefighters, and aviation fire services and military emergency response personnel and their immediate direct family from all across the globe. The games are held biennially in different countries ...