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Wildland Firefighting (3rd Edition)Chapter 1-Wildland Fire Behavior:? Fuel, Weather, TopographyTest Review Fire is actually a by-product of a larger process called combustion. Rapid oxidation occurs in either smoldering or steady-state phases. Fuels exist in solid, liquid, and gas form. Only fuels in gas form will burn. Pyrolysis is a chemical change caused by the action of heat. Heat generated by a fire evaporates the moisture in the fuel and heats the fuel to ignition temperature. Heat transfer takes place by conduction, convection, and radiation. Heat transfer by conduction has limited ef