Sentence examples for fires 1 from inspiring English sources
Concomitant with rising carbon dioxide levels and temperatures, severe weather events are increasing, which can lead to substantial rises in sea level, flooding, increased droughts, and forest fires (1 ).
According to the report of the ASEAN Disaster Risk Management Initiative (2), from 1970 to 2009 there were 1,211 reported disasters that comprised floods (36%), cyclonic storms (32%), earthquakes and tsunami (9%), epidemics (8%), landslides (7%), volcanic eruptions (4%), droughts (3%), and forest fires (1%).
There were 1,037 fires, 1,616 wrecked or looted stores and 3,776 arrests.
Of these fires, 1,104 were peat bog fires, covering a total of about 4,200 acres.
Smoke inhalation is the leading cause of death due to fires [1].
Collapse is mainly initiated by the pull-in of external columns (1 3-floor fires; 1 3-floor fires for 2.5% TFM) or swaying of the frame to the side of fire origin (5–1 9-floorfires).
Fire size distribution was typically asymmetric with many small fires (<10 ha) and very few large fires (>500 ha).
While the physical process of combustion is theoretically simple, understanding the relative influence of biotic and abiotic controls on observed, modern fire regimes is an ongoing focus in ecological research, nuanced by the role of humans who are changing landscapes to be more or less flammable, as well as lighting and extinguishing fires [1] [3].
Polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) are flame-retardant chemicals that are commonly used in textiles such as clothes and furniture, electronic equipment, plastics and various inflammable materials to prevent fires [ 1, 2].
Tree recruitment and succession are constrained by recurrent fires [ 23, 31], which instead facilitates grass encroachment and colonization that may fuel more intense and frequent fires [ 32, 33].
