It was titled Fundamentals of Wildfire Fighting by Carl Goodson. The book began by explaining the basics of each phase of fire. For example, the combustion process, which is essentially the phase in which the fire starts, comes first. I learned that in the Wildlands, fuel and oxygen are present, but for the combustion process to begin, heat must be added to release the combustible gases. In this state, the process keeps repeating itself. So once chemical combustion begins, the more heat is released by the energy, and the more heat is released, the more combustible gases are released, which adds to the fire. However, the behavior of oxygen is different, since the amount of oxygen available in the soil neither decreases nor increases with heat. This changes depending on weather conditions, however, as wind can certainly increase the oxygen available to the fire. Later in the book, I saw a discussion of conduction, which Goodson describes as occurring “when two objects of different temperatures come into direct contact; heat transfers from the warmer object to the colder object until their temperatures are equal” (17). For example, when a person touches a pot of boiling water, their fingers get burned. This reaction is the conduction process. Heat from the pan is transferred from