Description
Enforce fire regulations, inspect forest for fire hazards, and recommend forest fire prevention or control measures. May report forest fires and weather conditions.
- • Relay messages about emergencies, accidents, locations of crew and personnel, and fire hazard conditions.
- • Direct crews working on firelines during forest fires.
- • Estimate sizes and characteristics of fires, and report findings to base camps by radio or telephone.
- • Administer regulations regarding sanitation, fire prevention, violation corrections, and related forest regulations.
- • Extinguish smaller fires with portable extinguishers, shovels, and axes.
- • Locate forest fires on area maps, using azimuth sighters and known landmarks.
- • Maintain records and logbooks.
- • Examine and inventory firefighting equipment, such as axes, fire hoses, shovels, pumps, buckets, and fire extinguishers, to determine amount and condition.
- • Direct maintenance and repair of firefighting equipment, or requisition new equipment.
- • Restrict public access and recreational use of forest lands during critical fire seasons.
- • Patrol assigned areas, looking for forest fires, hazardous conditions, and weather phenomena.
- • Compile and report meteorological data, such as temperature, relative humidity, wind direction and velocity, and types of cloud formations.
- • Inspect camp sites to ensure that campers are in compliance with forest use regulations.
- • Inspect forest tracts and logging areas for fire hazards such as accumulated wastes or mishandling of combustibles, and recommend appropriate fire prevention measures.
- • Conduct wildland firefighting training.
- • Educate the public about fire safety and prevention.
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Last reviewed: Jan 2026
