Agency employees who have actual experience dealing with a critical incident and are qualified as incident information officers.

Instructor-led training that is conducted in field environment.

Training that is specifically designed to meet course objectives through a combination of self-directed online training and Instructor-led training. The online component typically contains a portion of the curriculum content and must be successfully completed in order to complete the course.

Training where the students and/or instructors are not interacting with each other in real time. Typically, the students are accessing learning resources at a time of their choosing.

A natural or manmade water site that a helicopter can fill their bucket with water, such as a stream, river, lake, swimming pool, etc...

A theoretical concept that is used to model and classify crown fire. It may be observable after the fact in burn severity assessments.

The committee or subgroup that is assigned to manage an incident position

Level of risk as determined by the risk management process which cannot be mitigated to an acceptable safe level.

High fire frequency over a short period of time in an administrative unit, usually overtaxing the normal initial attack capability of the unit.

A system of navigational satellites operated by the U.S. Department of Defense and available for civilian use. The system can track objects anywhere in the world with an accuracy of approximately 40 feet.