 and welcome to this year's annual Fireline Safety Refresher training. This program is designed to refresh your memory on the basic fireline safety principles and help keep you safety conscious throughout this fire season. The modules are standalone lessons and you are not required to complete them all. It's up to your facilitator to tailor this program appropriately for your audience and to introduce some local concerns as well. Additional training material can always be found by visiting the Wildland Fire Safety Training Annual Refresher or Wolfstar website. On the back cover of your Incident Response Pocket Guide or IRPG, you'll find the standard firefighting orders. They should be referred to and applied as we go through the modules, along with the 18 situations that shout watch out, the risk management process, and LCES. In your student workbooks, you'll find some of the statistics from the 2007 fire season. Please note that we suffered nine fatalities last year, which is a significant decrease from the 24 fatalities we had in 2006. Now, despite this reduction, we did experience 13 entrapment scenarios involving 51 firefighters. 25 fire shelters were deployed. As we move into this fire season, let's keep in mind that seven of the 10 worst fire seasons on record in terms of acres burned have occurred since 1999. We are in a climatic period of high-intensity fire behavior and it's up to each and every one of us to expect the unexpected, be mindful of the worst-case scenario, and maintain good situational awareness.