Sentence examples for drop fire from inspiring English sources

The Privateer had made several trips to drop fire retardant and was carrying another load when it went down.

Fixed-wing aircraft are used to drop off teams of smokejumpers and large air tankers and transport aircraft are also used to drop fire retardant.

In both 1933 and 1948, students from UT rented an airplane and tried to drop fire bombs onto the stack.

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Low-flying aircraft were preparing to drop fire retardant over flames in the Barton Flats area when a 3- to 4-foot drone was seen buzzing between two planes.

Some of those Chernobyl workers were exposed to levels of radiation far beyond what has been measured to date at Daiichi — especially helicopter pilots who flew through radiation-laden smoke spewing from the reactor to drop fire-extinguishing chemicals on it.

A number of fire agencies were using water-dropping helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft dropping fire retardant to battle the Fish and Reservoir fires.

A helicopter drops fire retardants in the Sugerloaf Ridge State Park area along Highway 12, in Sonoma County.

Late in the day, winds subsided enough that aerial tankers were able to begin dropping fire retardant.

Similarly, this £12bn in cuts is simply dropping fire into the welfare fox hole and waiting for people to rush out of poverty and unemployment.

The fire was 20percentt contained as firefighters dug ditches for a fire line and helicopters dropped fire retardant chemicals, Polk County emergency management said.