Sentence examples for large scale fires from inspiring English sources

As white settlements moved further west into drier areas, the first large scale fires were encountered.

This has included the claim that a new scientific study of the dump, carried out by another team of international experts commissioned by the government, had found evidence of large scale fires and human remains.

We aim to replicate this finding with a different stressful event – a large scale fire.

In this paper four large scale fire tests on the reinforced concrete slabs, under combined uni-axial in-plane and out-of-plane loading conditions with vertical restraint at four corners of the slabs, are presented.

For the mechanical properties and boundary conditions assumed, it is found that during fire the axial load may increase with a factor which, at least in the worst cases, can be close to the safety factor found from large scale fire tests.

Systematic validation studies have been conducted with several published experiments including simple pyrolysis test without the gaseous region, small scale wall fires and large scale flame spread.

"Tests for very violent and very large-scale fires have not been done," said Dr. Yogesh Jaluria, a professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at Rutgers.

George Brooks, fire director for the Northeast region of the Forest Service, said that given the area's history of large-scale fires and the influx of people, the Pine Barrens harbor a "severe potential for a catastrophic fire".

Joanna Morgan, of Imperial College, a co-author of the review, described the effects of the asteroid strike: "This triggered large-scale fires, earthquakes measuring more than 10 on the Richter scale and continental landslides, which created tsunamis.

Initially, the Chicxulub impact triggered large-scale fires, huge earthquakes, and continental landslides which generated tsunamis.

A one-meter diameter-methane fire was simulated to validate a fire dynamics simulation code for large-scale fires.