"fire stopping" is correct and usable in written English.
You would use it in a sentence to describe a type of construction that is used to prevent the spread of fire such as, "The building was fitted with fire stopping in the walls to ensure safety."
"There's no fire stopping in the walls.
According to the witnesses, the area came under fire, stopping the journalists in their tracks.
Seven armed police and security personnel inside returned fire, stopping him from getting inside.
However, this approach is inadequate to identify defects in the components that make up compartmentation and fire stopping details in concealed spaces [3] since, it is impossible to determine with the naked eye whether these details have been installed as designed.
Soon the vehicles began receiving heavy fire stopping their advance.
It is considered that this rapid smoke spread could be due to incorrect installation, missing, inappropriate or defective components, that make up compartmentation and fire stopping within concealed spaces [1 3].
Ms. Palin, who was not at the church at the time of the fire, stopped by Saturday.
Fuel breaks carved in the vegetation after the 2013 fire stopped this week's fire from reaching the town.
Finally, we would contrive to conquer its bone-chilling tendency to suck every molecule of warm air up the flue once the fire stops blazing.
"That message seemed to have got through because the small arms fire stopped".
The paper also reviews different tests that can be employed as part of iCT methodology to identify the potential defects in fire compartmentation, and fire stops such as cavity barriers in buildings.
