It is 10:00. A wildfire that started overnight is burning in pine forest on the slopes above Petrovoúni. You are the sector coordinator: two hand crews, a dozer, two engines, a water-dropping helicopter and a retardant air tanker are at your disposal. The fire will be driven by changing wind over a five-hour operational period (≈25 minutes at normal speed — pause or accelerate at any time).
How to operate
Task ground forces from the FORCES tab: move them, or have crews and the dozer build control line to a point you pick on the map. Anchor lines to roads, burned ground or the lake — never leave crews between the fire and unburnable escape terrain.
Engines protect assets: station one at a structure and it defends it and knocks down nearby fire.
Air operations: assign the helicopter a drop target (it cycles via the reservoir) and request tanker retardant drops. Drops are far more effective — and only fully credited — when coordinated with a ground unit near the target. Never drop on personnel, and hold the helicopter when the tanker is inbound.
Watch the wind. Forecast alerts precede major shifts; a strong shift can put crews on the wrong side of the fire and invalidate your plan. Withdraw endangered units to the marked safety zones.
Fulfil command requests before their deadlines and acknowledge alerts promptly.
You are evaluated on
Asset protection · containment & line construction · wind-shift adaptation · crew safety · air–ground coordination · command responsiveness · alert management · operational productivity — pass mark 70%. Dimensions align to D3.1 DRT Wildfire Behavior (Proficient) criteria A–K.
GENERAL KNOWLEDGE — The tactics rewarded here (anchor-point line construction, LCES-style crew safety, ground confirmation of aerial drops, airspace deconfliction, defensive structure protection) reflect widely taught wildland-fire doctrine. The fire-spread engine is a simplified training model, not a validated prediction system such as those referenced in the LU readings, and all numeric parameters (speeds, ranges, scores) are training values invented for this exercise.