Description:

• Spot fires from watchtowers and report their findings to headquarters by telephone or radio.

• Suppress fires using heavy equipment, hand tools, and water hoses.

• One of the most effective means of battling the blaze is by creating fire lines through cutting down trees and digging out grass and all other combustible vegetation, creating bare land in the path of the fire that deprives it of fuel.

• Elite firefighters, called smoke jumpers, parachute from airplanes to reach otherwise inaccessible areas.