Management action to extinguish a fire or confining fire spread. Implies a tactic to "put all or part of a wildland fire out" rather than a type of fire.
Source: National Wildfire Coordinating Group. " Terminology Updates Resulting from Release of the Guidance for the Implementation of Federal Wildland Fire Management Policy (2009) Attachment A: Terms whose definition and intent has changed with the Guidance for the Implementation of Federal Wildland Fire Management Policy (2009). Accessed 7 July, 2011. http://www.nwcg.gov/