Sentence examples for a controlled fire of from inspiring English sources

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.

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.

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.

Complaints from just a handful of homeowners about thick smoke can shut down a controlled fire, even after it has started, said Kate Klein, a forest ranger in Arizona.

We drove to where two young firefighters were strengthening a containment line by back burning — starting a controlled fire that would burn back toward an approaching fire front, depriving it of fuel.

A controlled fire burner was constructed where various natural vegetation materials could be used as fuel.

The photograph was taken during a controlled fire conducted in a prison land in Southern California.

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.

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.

By no later than half a million years ago, however, groups of the ancestral species Homo erectus were maintaining campsites with controlled fire — the equivalent of nests — from which they foraged and returned with food, including a substantial portion of meat.

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