Sentence examples for fire shelters from inspiring English sources
They were overrun by flames just after climbing into silver, tentlike emergency fire shelters.
He describes how they deploy portable fire shelters (aluminum pup tents that reflect radiant heat) in emergency situations.
They went to a classroom to be briefed on fire safety and were taught how to deploy emergency fire shelters.
Investigators said the temperature of the fire climbed above 2,000 degrees, well above the 1,200 degrees that the fire shelters are designed to withstand.
Three trapped firefighters had to deploy their personal fire shelters as a rapid wind shift sent a northern California wildfire burning over their location Monday, authorities said.
The four died in their emergency fire shelters on July 10 , 2001 when they were trapped along with 10 other firefighters and two campers.
We were taught that if you are forced to deploy your fire shelter, you have erred.
Their mission: to withstand the wilderness, travel as a group and avoid elimination while each team is assigned a task — including taking charge of food, fire, shelter or obstacles — throughout the various legs of the journey.
We were trained to process death this way; told from Day 1 that, as a training handout put it, "fire shelter deployments have always been attributed to violations of The 10 Standard Fire Orders and the 18 Situations that Shout Watch Out," the core set of rules and guidelines all wildland firefighters know by heart.
2. Gear bag: containing water, rations, sleeping bag and fire shelter, among other things.
