A group of incident personnel organized according to function and reporting to the Incident Commander or Unified Command. The ICS General Staff consists of the Operations Section Chief, Planning Section Chief, Logistics Section Chief, Finance/Administration Section Chief.

Any federal, state, or local emergency public safety, law enforcement, emergency responder, emergency medical (including hospital emergency facilities), and related personnel, agencies, and authorities. It is any organization responding to an emergency, or providing mutual aid support to such an organization, whether in the field, at the scene of an incident, or operations center. 

Emergency firing to stop, delay, or split a fire front, or to steer a fire.

The systematic application of methods, procedures, and techniques common to the field of wildand fire investigation as regularly applied to solve the problems of the investigation within each specifc scene's conditions and needs.

The act of determining that a fire exists; does not include determining its location.

Time between application of an ignition source and self-sustained combustion of a fuel.

A management distinction, made to satisfy legal and budget constraints, based on whether the ignition source was planned or unplanned. Under the implementation guidance, only two types of wildland fire - wildfire and prescribed fire - are recognized.

Regular number of hours worked per week by a full-time firefighter, excluding overtime.

Device for combining measured ratings of various fire danger factors into numerical classes or rates of spread.

A crew of individuals who may be assigned to support helicopter operations.