Sentence examples for dug fire from inspiring English sources

Ms. Bell was one of 18 archaeologists who worked ahead of fire crews this week, trying to avoid potentially important sites as they dug fire lines.

Sometimes, they help dig fire breaks.

Resources were so strained that fire officials began providing basic fire training to volunteers who had machinery like backhoes and bulldozers, so they could help dig fire lines.

At Gundlach Bundschu Winery, on the southern outskirts of Sonoma, the staff had spent days clearing brush and digging fire lines.

It's a place where people know how to protect their land, know how to dig fire lines and remove brush, hose the perimeter.

They work for more than 150 private firms, digging fire lines, driving bulldozers and trucks and often working alongside the approximately 10,000 firefighters hired each year directly by the federal Forest Service.

Rising humidity and weaker winds worked in favor of the firefighters, who began digging fire lines, clearing brush and dropping flame retardant from the air onto the fire's northern head.

Cooler weather today allowed the 800 firefighters to begin to dig fire breaks in front of what is called the Arthur fire and try to contain it with a ring of cleared ground.

By 12 30 pm, more than 200 firefighters were on duty and involved in digging fire line or in support of the firefighting effort.

We would wake up at 5 a.m., hike four miles or so into the fire, and dig fire line all day.

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