California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection - Mission

Mission


Wildland
Firefighting
Main articles

Firestorm · Peat fire · Wildfire · Wildfire suppression
Tactics & Equipment

Aerial firefighting · Controlled burn · Driptorch · Fire fighting foam · Fire lookout tower · Fire retardant · Fire trail · Fire-retardant gel · Firebreak · Helicopter bucket · Pulaski
Personnel

Engine crew · Handcrew · Helitack · Hotshots · Smokejumper · Rappeller
By country

Australia
Lists

List of wildfires
Glossary of wildfire terms

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:

    “The mission is too important to allow you to jeopardize it.”
    —Stanley Kubrick (b. 1928)

    “The mission of men there seems to be, like so many busy demons, to drive the forest all out of the country, from every solitary beaver swamp and mountain-side, as soon as possible.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “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)