A Ground Pounder's Glossary
Wildland firefighting has its own language.
If you can't be a "ground pounder," you can at least talk like one!

Blue Room - Portable toilets used in fire camps and often blue in color.

Bump up - To move forward or transport up the fire line, as in "Bump the hose up the line: My lunch is on fire!"

Cubies - Plastic-lined cardboard boxes that contain 5 gallons of drinking water.

Happy Hungries - Military-issue MREs (meals ready to eat) eaten when firefighters must remain on the fire line and miss dinner in camp.

Slimed - To be hit with a load of red fire-retardant slurry dropped from an airplane. Not good.

Shake-N-Bake - Fire shelter of aluminum foil and fiberglass laminate carried by all firefighters. Resembles a pup tent.

Slopover - A fire that spreads across the fire line.