Editing The Burning Line (section)

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*'''Closed area''': An area in which specified activities or entry are temporarily restricted to reduce risk of human-caused fires.
*'''Closure''': Legal restriction, but not necessarily elimination, of specified activities such as smoking, camping, or entry that might cause fires in a given area.
*'''Cold trailing''': A method of controlling a partly dead fire edge by carefully inspecting and feeling with the hand for heat to detect any fire, digging out every live spot, and trenching any live edge.
*'''Complex''': Two or more individual incidents located in the same general area which are assigned to a single incident commander or unified command.
*'''Confine a fire''': The least aggressive wildfire suppression strategy which can be expected to keep the fire within established boundaries of constructed firelines under prevailing conditions.
*'''Contain a fire''': A moderately aggressive wildfire suppression strategy which can be expected to keep the fire within established boundaries of constructed firelines under prevailing conditions.
*'''Control line''': An inclusive term for all constructed or natural barriers and treated (retardant) fire edges used to control a fire.
*'''Controlled burn''': See Prescribed Burn.
*'''Coyote tactics''': A progressive line construction duty involving self-sufficient crews which build fireline until the end of the operational period, remain at or near the point while off duty (in a spike camp), and begin building fireline again the next operational period where they left off.
*'''Creeping fire''': Fire burning with a low flame and spreading slowly.
*'''Crown fire''': A fire that advances from top to top of trees or shrubs more or less independent of a surface fire. Crown fires are sometimes classed as running or dependent to distinguish the degree of independence from the surface fire.
*'''Crown out''': A fire that raises from ground into the tree crowns and advances from treetop to treetop. To intermittently ignite tree crowns as a surface fire advances.