Equipment

Every fire crew should be fully equipped with suitable tools for fighting wildfires.  There are certain hand tools and pieces of equipment that are common to all areas of wildfire control.  These should be carried on all tractor-plow units and any other suppression equipment.

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• Personal

  • Clothing

  • Fire shelter

  • Radios

  • Note pad or tape recorder

• Hand Tools

  • Rake

  • Flap

  • Pulaski

• Weather

  • Psycrometer

  • Anerometer

  • Weather radio

  • Airplane

• Ignition Devices

  • Drip torches

  • ATV Loop

  • Aerial

    • Helitorch

    • DAID

• Plows (Dozers)

  • Front

  • Trailer

  • Tractor Mounted

  • Harrow

• Pumpers/Engine

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