Sentence examples for a controlled fire from inspiring English sources

And local and national officials have begun to express anger at the National Park Service, which set what it had hoped would be a controlled fire a week ago before high winds sent it racing across heavily wooded canyons toward the populated areas.

An effort by the National Park Service to set a controlled fire in a densely wooded area of New Mexico has blown out of control, forcing the evacuation of thousands of people and threatening the Los Alamos National Laboratory, where some of the country's most sensitive nuclear weapons research is conducted.

"If it's a controlled fire for religious purposes, no threat to safety, we move on," he said.

He was looking up at a brick building, his back to a controlled fire burning brightly inside a trash pile in the middle of the street.

When the winds shifted and began blowing from the south instead of the north, fire crews set a controlled fire of their own along the three-mile line.

A spokesman for the Fourth Infantry Division, which operates in the area, said the reports stemmed from a "controlled fire" that was set to burn residual fuel.

When you have your shelter and a hot, controlled fire, you may try to stand a large, flat stone (or similar object) up on the side of the fire ring to reflect heat to your shelter.

Park Service officials have said that they knew that there was some danger of the fire spreading but that conditions for a successful controlled fire are typically similar to those for a dangerous wildfire.

"We deployed some accelerants and had a few controlled fires in my driveway," Mr. Mims said, "but couldn't quite convince the Austin Fire Department to help out with a full flashover fire".

The earliest confirmed use of controlled fire, dating back a million years, took place at Swartkrans.

They fired a 1.8-pound shell at a rate of 96 98 rounds per minute for controlled fire and 115 rounds per minute for automatic fire.