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- One-hour fuel
- Vegetation with large surface-to-mass ratio, a so-called "fine fuel" (along with 10-hour) that quickly reaches critical (inflammable) moisture levels (fine fuel moisture, FFM) when exposed to heat; compare with 100-hour or 1000-hour fuels (i.e., live fuel moisture, LFM), which take much more heat to ignite.
- Overhead
- Personnel assigned to supervisory positions, including Incident Commander, Command Staff, General Staff, Branch Directors, Supervisors, Unit Leaders, Managers, and staff. Also may be organized according to qualifications and experience, as "Type I Overhead Team", and the like. Many positions, functions and interactions of wildfire overhead organizations provided the model for today's Incident Command Systems in the United States.
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