Sentence examples for battling forest fires from inspiring English sources

The Southeast has spent much of the past few weeks battling forest fires, which began after one of its worst droughts on record.

Montana, Oregon and Washington are among Western states battling forest fires this summer and suffering the resulting poor air quality.

Los Angeles County Supervisor Mike Antonovich is asking the U.S. Forest Service to reconsider a policy shift to reduce the use of chemical fire retardants in battling forest fires.

One of the driest springs on record has sparked fears for agriculture and wildlife, while crews 'work to the point of exhaustion' to battle forest fires.

9 P.M. (ABC) FIRELIGHT (2012) Cuba Gooding Jr. plays Dwayne Johnson, a counselor at a youth correctional center for women who creates an elite band of volunteers to battle forest fires -- and, in the process, offers the inmates salvation.

Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Burbank), who has been pressing the U.S. Forest Service to revise its policies in the wake of the devastating 2009 Station fire, expressed frustration recently that as fire season approaches, the agency still has not committed to preparing for night flights to battle forest fires or come up with a policy to work more closely with local fire crews.

Fighting HIV with antibodies is like battling a forest fire with garden hoses.

More than 1,000 firefighters are battling a forest fire in Portugal that has claimed the lives at least 64 people and injured more than 130 since Saturday.

Firefighters are battling a forest fire on La Gomera in Spain's Canary Islands which forced the evacuation of nearly 1,000 people by ferry overnight.

The wrongful-death and product liability case against Bell Helicopter Textron Inc. focuses on the final minutes of veteran helicopter pilot Floyd Hiser's life--minutes Hiser spent battling a forest fire in the San Bernardino Mountains near Highland on July 6 , 1997

The authorities said the army was helping firefighters battle a forest fire in La Nucia, in the eastern coastal province of Alicante.