Putting out a fire by applying water, smothering or chemically quenching the fire or by physically separating burning from unburned fuel.

Any treatment of burning fuel, such as by wetting, smothering, or chemically quenching the fire or by physically separating burning from unburned fuel.

A method of suppression that treats the fire at the burning edge, by wetting, cooling smothering, or chemically quenching the fire or by mechanically separating the fire from unburned fuel. Action is directly against or near the fire's edge.

"Putting the wet stuff on the red stuff." A form of fire attack in which hoses are advanced to the fire inside a structure and hose streams directed at the burning materials.