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Fire weather, the burn plan, firing patterns, holding and smoke: one topic per page. The drawing first, then the numbers and steps to remember. For the state burn manager exam and for burn day. 64 illustrated pages.
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Every page has one big drawing and a box with the numbers, rules and steps you need to know:
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These are real pages from the book. The table of contents is the full one: 9 parts and 60 topics.
You're filling out a burn plan for your own pasture, and the first box asks for the objectives. You write "clear the brush." The instructor hands it back: not measurable.
The binder covers it in two dense paragraphs about objectives, prescriptions and parameters. Nothing shows you which one comes first or how they connect.
In the book, the objective gets its own page. First the measurable objective, then the prescription written to meet it, drawn as one line from what you want on the ground to the conditions that get you there, with PMS 484, Element 5, in a box.
The rest works the same way: fine fuel moisture, mixing height, the test fire, the holding crew and mop-up. Each one has its own page.
You write the objective first and the prescription second, in the right order. And when you go back to the binder, you know what you're looking for.
How fire behaves, fire weather, prescription and burn plan, firebreaks and equipment, test fire and firing patterns, holding and safety, smoke management, mop-up and the law, and a final review: 64 pages, all illustrated.
Think of it this way:
It's burn morning. The spot forecast gives you mixing height and transport wind, and you need to know if the smoke will lift and move off or settle over the highway.
You open the page on mixing height and transport wind and see the smoke column drawn rising to the mixing height and then carried off by the transport wind, with what to check in a box beside it.
Same for the test fire, backing and strip-head fire, the holding crew, superfog and mop-up: each one on its own page.
Prescribed Burn Manager Illustrated is 9 parts and 60 topics, all drawn, and it closes with the whole burn in 8 steps, the most common mistakes and an exam-day review sheet.
What you see drawn, you don't have to memorize.
The two triangles, head, flank and back of a fire, flame length, rate of spread, slope and aspect, and fuels from 1-hr to 1000-hr.
RH and fine fuel moisture, the belt weather kit, the three winds, wind shifts, cold fronts, stability and inversions, mixing height, transport wind, dispersion and the KBDI.
Objectives first, dormant vs. growing season, the prescription window, the elements of a burn plan, the unit map, the contingency plan and the go/no-go.
Six kinds of firebreaks, line width, prepping snags and heavy fuels, the drip torch, water and holding equipment, and PPE.
The test fire, black line first, backing, strip-head, flanking, point source and ring fire, and how to choose the pattern for your unit.
The holding crew's job, spot fires and spotting distance, LCES, safety zone size, the crew briefing and trigger points.
What's in smoke, smoke-sensitive areas, plotting the trajectory, daytime vs. nighttime smoke, superfog, reducing impact and notifications.
Mop-up from the line inward, how long to patrol, declaring the burn out, records, what certification gives you, and permits and burn bans.
The whole burn in 8 steps, fire weather terms side by side, common mistakes in the plan and on burn day, and an exam-day review sheet.
At the end of the book: The whole burn in 8 steps, fire weather terms side by side, common mistakes and an exam-day review sheet.
Exam-style questions with answers and a short why for each, so you find out what you don't know before the exam does.
Fire weather terms, firing patterns and go/no-go checks on printable cards, for a quick review before you light the first strip.
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The binder makes sense once you see it drawn: fire weather, the burn plan and firing patterns, one page each, always in the same order.
You review the whole burn in 8 steps, work through the practice questions and find out what you don't know before the exam does.
Print it, keep it in the truck and go over the go/no-go, the test fire and the holding plan before you light the first strip. And give your crew the same picture.
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Yes. It doesn't teach you to light a fire from scratch: it puts what you already do in the order the course asks for, from the prescription to patrol, with the weather and the burn plan drawn.
From the NWCG guides (PMS 484 and the Smoke Management Guide for Prescribed Fire), the NWCG Incident Response Pocket Guide and National Weather Service fire weather products. Prescription ranges and legal rules are flagged so you can check them against the current edition of your state program.
No. It's an independent illustrated study book. No state agency, forestry service or certifying program issues or endorses it.
No. You still need your state's certified prescribed burn manager course and its manual. The book doesn't certify you: only your state program does. On burn day, the burn boss's judgment on site comes first. This book helps you study and review.
No. They're written for this book in exam style, each with the answer and a short why. They are not official questions from any exam.
The book and the 2 gifts arrive as PDFs by email, at the address you enter at checkout.
Fire behavior, fire weather, the burn plan, firing patterns, holding, smoke and mop-up work the same in every state. What changes is the law: certification requirements, permits, burn bans and liability. Those pages are flagged so you check them against your state's program and its manual.
We don't ship a printed copy. It's a PDF ready to print, at home or at a print shop: the whole book or just the pages you want to keep in the truck.
You have 30 days. We refund everything if the file won't open, if the book isn't what you see on this page, if you were charged twice or if the email doesn't arrive: just email us.
No more rereading the binder with nothing sticking.
Mixing height and transport wind: you see them drawn, and that's it.
You walk into the exam knowing where everything is.
Drawings make studying faster.
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