Sentence examples for contain a fire from inspiring English sources

The plane is also designed, he said, to contain a fire to a small area.

Photo: A firefighter worked Friday to contain a fire in Northern California near the community of Kyburz.

It will happen when all are confident they have a good solution that will contain a fire or a leak".

"When you're out there trying to contain a fire and you've got fire jumping ahead of you, that makes it even more dangerous," Mr. Hubright said.

The garages are enclosed concrete structures with walls that can contain a fire for three hours, making them safe as well as soundproof, Mr. Steinberg said.

Concrete-insulated refuge floors every 15 stories or so, compartmentalized like a ship's bulkheads, could provide shelter before a complete evacuation and might contain a fire, Mr. Kohn said.

Burned brick, no doubt, had already been produced simply by containing a fire with mud bricks.

A neighbour armed with a hose pipe can participate in containing a fire, but will never replace the fire brigade.

The result is electric and alive, containing a fire her mother would surely recognize and a beauty her father would approve.

After all, no one died, there were no horrific injuries, they successfully contained a fire that - you gather from the hoses right down the residential streets and into another industrial estate - they feared might spread much further.

Milton Court, containing a fire station, mortuary and coroners court, was the first section of the Barbican to be completed in 1959, and in 2008 it was the first to disappear, replaced by new glass-walled facilities for the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, despite protests from conservationists who believed it should be saved.