Sentence examples for approaching fire from inspiring English sources

Dr. Browne first got a call in the afternoon saying there was an approaching fire.

Shortly after 4 p.m., there at last came the sound of approaching fire engine sirens along Kriess Road.

His house is a block south of the town's airport and his family has been forced to evacuate three times amid approaching fire.

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.

LOS ANGELES — David Grieb had just returned home three days earlier from a cross-country drive to be at his dying mother's bedside when the order came for him to evacuate the Oakridge Mobile Home Park because of an approaching fire.

So while scientists have studied the ways that smell might have developed to warn humans of food gone bad or an approaching fire, it is up to designers to encourage people to think about what is lost when we have "fire alarms and sell-by dates and fridges" and, for that matter, deodorants and perfume.

More recently it has been taken as a sign of approaching fires.

With firefighters overstretched and saddled with aging equipment, volunteers were sometimes forced to pitch in to save villages from approaching fires.

Similarly, when someone approaches fire and has the sensation of heat, pain or pleasure, he may be persuaded that the heat he feels is in the fire just as he perceives it, since this sensation is known to him clearly.

When de Pablo approaches fire houses about donating pet oxygen masks to stations, hostility and confusion are common reactions.

The three gunshot victims were hanging out with several others just before 7 p.m. when three suspects approached, firing handguns.