Sentence examples for fought forest fires from inspiring English sources

Pyne, a history professor who fought forest fires for fifteen summers, writes like a master.

The fear was compounded because most of the men who usually fought forest fires were overseas.

He fought forest fires and shoveled coal at a power plant.

During the Great Depression of the 1930s the interests of forestry were served most imaginatively and thoroughly by the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), which planted trees, fought forest fires, and improved access to woodlands across the United States.

Ms. Morgan, 55, said her husband, Clay Morgan, a writer and former "smoke jumper" who fought forest fires, and her two sons, one a high school senior and the other a college freshman, have been supportive and understanding.

Ninda fought forest fires tearing through peatlands, and then volunteered to work as part of a prevention team to try to make sure Indonesia doesn't have another haze crisis on its hands the next burning season.

As an early teenager I wanted to fight forest fires.

These risk indices can be presented in the form of maps and, thus, be used to prevent and/or fight forest fires.

He played the husband of a comedian in Punchline (1988) and a pilot who fights forest fires opposite Richard Dreyfuss in Always (1989).

In their efforts to fight forest fires, the United States Forest Service and other agencies have long used infrared cameras on airplanes.

They were killed transporting a bomb near two fire helicopters that were parked on the hillside near Corte ready to be called into action to fight forest fires.