The work provides a compre­hen­sive overview of all areas and tasks: Preven­tion, mission prepa­ra­tion, strat­egy and tactics of fire­fight­ing, the inter­ac­tion of admin­is­tra­tive as well as oper­a­tional units, tech­nol­ogy and communication.

It char­ac­ter­izes the causes, spread, and means of suppres­sion of forest fires, types of forest fires, rates of fire spread, extin­guish­ing agent effects, and the influ­ence of climate and weather.

Espe­cially the strat­egy and tactics of the current forest fire fight­ing on the ground, the support of the extin­guish­ing measures from the air and the tech­ni­cal as well as orga­ni­za­tional measures of the prepa­ra­tion and the oper­a­tional command are presented under the aspect of the coop­er­a­tion of all forces of the non-police danger defense and the civil-mili­tary cooperation.