Mission
Wildland Firefighting |
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Firestorm · Peat fire · Wildfire · Wildfire suppression |
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Aerial firefighting · Controlled burn · Driptorch · Fire fighting foam · Fire lookout tower · Fire retardant · Fire trail · Fire-retardant gel · Firebreak · Helicopter bucket · Pulaski |
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Engine crew · Handcrew · Helitack · Hotshots · Smokejumper · Rappeller |
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Australia |
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| Lists | |||
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List of wildfires |
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The CAL FIRE website states: "The California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection serves and safeguards the people and protects the property and resources of California."
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Famous quotes containing the word mission:
“I am succeeding quite well in my work and the future looks well. What special mission is God preparing me for? Cutting off all earthly ties and isolating me as it were.”
—Ellen Henrietta Swallow Richards (1842–1911)
“When you’re dealing with monkeys, you’ve got to expect some wrenches.”
—Alvah Bessie, Ranald MacDougall, and Lester Cole. Raoul Walsh. Captain Nelson, Objective Burma, giving a subaltern a mission (1945)
“Perhaps the mission of those who love mankind is to make people laugh at the truth, to make truth laugh, because the only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth.”
—Umberto Eco (b. 1932)