### 10 Standard Firefighting Orders
1. **Keep informed on fire weather conditions and forecasts.**
2. **Know what your fire is doing at all times.**
3. **Base all actions on current and expected behavior of the fire.**
4. **Identify escape routes and safety zones and make them known.**
5. **Post lookouts when there is possible danger.**
6. **Be alert. Keep calm. Think clearly. Act decisively.**
7. **Maintain prompt communications with your forces, your supervisor, and adjoining forces.**
8. **Give clear instructions and be sure they are understood.**
9. **Maintain control of your forces at all times.**
10. **Fight fire aggressively, having provided for safety first.**
### 18 Watchout Situations
1. **Fire not scouted and sized up.**
2. **In country not seen in daylight.**
3. **Safety zones and escape routes not identified.**
4. **Unfamiliar with weather and local factors influencing fire behavior.**
5. **Uninformed on strategy, tactics, and hazards.**
6. **Instructions and assignments not clear.**
7. **No communication link with crew members/supervisors.**
8. **Constructing line without safe anchor point.**
9. **Building fireline downhill with fire below.**
10. **Attempting frontal assault on fire.**
11. **Unburned fuel between you and the fire.**
12. **Cannot see main fire, not in contact with someone who can.**
13. **On a hillside where rolling material can ignite fuel below.**
14. **Weather becoming hotter and drier.**
15. **Wind increases and/or changes direction.**
16. **Getting frequent spot fires across line.**
17. **Terrain and fuels make escape to safety zones difficult.**
18. **Taking a nap near the fireline.**
These orders and situations are fundamental to the safety protocols in wildland firefighting and are used to train firefighters to recognize and avoid dangerous situations.
