Sentence examples for off wildfires from inspiring English sources

They block watercourses, drive gas-guzzlers, cause oil spills, set off wildfires, litter the landscape and persecute wildlife.

Last summer, dry lightning storms set off wildfires that raced across cheatgrass-infested range land and blackened a record 1.8 million acres in northern Nevada.

An epic drought there killed half a billion trees, touched off wildfires that burned four million acres, and destroyed or damaged thousands of homes and buildings.

It's been tornadoes tearing up the US South and Southeast, record heat that helped kick off wildfires in California, where the drought continues to worsen with no sign of letup.

A controversial bill Brown signed in September allows PG&E to pay off wildfire lawsuits with a state-authorized bond money, so long as the company acted reasonably in maintaining its equipment before the fires.

As residents shoveled ashes from their yards and sifted through the rubble of their charred homes today, firefighters worked in rain and snow to cut off two wildfires burning in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains.

A1 Assessing Blame for Wildfires Conservative critics -- including the Republican governor of Montana -- said the Clinton administration did not move fast enough to ward off the wildfires burning large chunks of the West.

"This has taken off like wildfire," McCue says, highlighting the "incredibly deep and broad" range of topics these magazines cover.

"This market is going to take off like wildfire in the next 6 to 12 months," he said.

One, which landed on a mesa on the outskirts of Flagstaff, set off a wildfire that spread over 15 acres and took firefighters 90 minutes to contain.

Tall stalks of phragmites whose feathery beige tips overlook waterside areas have taken off like wildfire, consuming 30 acres of Connecticut tidal marshes a year.