Interagency Ground Ignition Guide (Black & White)

The National Wildfire Coordinating Group provides national leadership to enable interoperable wildland fire operations among federal, state, local, tribal, and territorial partners. Primary objectives include: Establish national interagency wildland fire operations standards. Recognize that the decision to adopt standards is made independently by the NWCG members and communicated through their respective directives systems; Establish wildland fire position standards, qualifications requirements, and performance support capabilities (e.g. training courses, job aids) that enable implementation of NWCG standards; Support the National Cohesive Wildland Fire Management Strategy goals: to restore and maintain resilient landscapes; create fire adapted communities; and respond to wildfires safely and effectively; Establish information technology (IT) capability requirements for wildland fire; and Ensure that all NWCG activities contribute to safe, effective, and coordinated national interagency wildland fire operations. The National Wildfire Coordinating Group (NWCG), through its Equipment Technology Committee, recognized a need for guidance on ground ignition operations. The procedures and equipment outlined in this guide address both incident and project ground ignition operations. The "Interagency Ground Ignition Guide" has been developed to: Define and standardize procedures and equipment for approved ground ignition operations by all cooperating natural resource agencies; Ensure that all ground ignition operations are performed in a safe and efficient manner; Provide a framework within which areas, regions, States, and local units can provide their own supplemental, site-specific guidance; Provide the minimum standards/specifications for ground ignition equipment.