This paper is based on a talk delivered at the 2024 Optimization and Wildfire Conference in Luso, Portugal, on October 2, 2024, during which I characterized forest and wildland fire management from an operational research perspective. I present a brief description of fire management as it is practiced in the province of Ontario, Canada, and focus on how aircraft are used to detect and suppress wildfires there. I then describe how my colleagues and I are developing an aerial detection probability model and daily airtanker deployment models. I briefly describe what I consider to be three important current and emerging problems that I believe operational researchers can help resolve, and conclude by stressing the importance of close collaboration between researchers and wildfire managers when they do so.