Sentence examples for avert fires from inspiring English sources

Vulcan was invoked to avert fires, as his epithets Quietus and Mulciber (Fire Allayer) suggest.

"We averted a needless evacuation," said Robert J. Donahue Jr., the fire chief.

Concerned about averting fire and disease, the commissioners rejected crooked, narrow streets like those downtown.

In some instances, Schneiderman noted, multiple tasks might be required in each zone to safely avert a fire.

In Australia, the increasing use of deliberate fuel reduction burns as hazard reduction activities to avert major fire disasters is becoming more controversial in the light of the evidence of adverse health impacts of particulate air pollution [ 13].

"(The fire and explosion) resulted from the failure of a company to take the necessary steps to avert a preventable fire and explosion and from the inability of federal, state and local regulatory agencies to idenitfy a serious hazard and correct it," Moure-Eraso said.

"It resulted from the failure of a company to take the necessary steps to avert a preventable fire and explosion and from the inability of federal, state and local regulatory agencies to identify a serious hazard and correct it". The three-person board of presidential nominees is charged with investigating serious chemical accidents, but does not have the power to issue fines.

The plane's pilot, flying about 30 miles south of the Iraqi city of Najaf, averted disaster by firing first, disabling the battery with a radar-seeking missile.

Banks could avoid having to sell those assets at fire-sale prices and avert losses that could tighten credit for everyone.

How might we avert another tragedy like the Grenfell Tower fire?

At least one feared disaster during this summer of heat waves, crop failures and forest fires has for now been averted.