Sentence examples for active firefight from inspiring English sources

The film begins with a teeth-rattling setpiece that starts on board a plane making up the Allied airborne armada, follows Boyce through the air and into the briny deep, then finishes on a stretch of shoreline engulfed by an active firefight.

"We are still in the middle of an aggressive and active firefight on the ground," Robert Welsbie, spokesman for the Ventura Fire Department, told Reuters.

As a Chinook pilot in Afghanistan, we would sometimes run emergency-support missions bringing needed supplies to a unit or bringing more infantry to an active firefight, but it just doesn't compare to the MEDEVAC missions," Morreale said.

Even in the case of active firefights with Taliban forces, airstrikes are to be limited if the combat is taking place in populated areas.

Even in the cases of active firefights with Taliban forces, he said, airstrikes will be limited if the combat is taking place in populated areas — the very circumstances in which most Afghan civilian deaths have occurred.

The blaze has been "unusually active" at night, hampering the firefight, Milloy told The Times.

Ten firefighters suffered minor injuries during the firefight.

Big firefight over there.

A firefight ensued.

A firefight erupted.

We had a firefight".