For both practical and ecological reasons, fires in the Yukon wilderness are left to burn unhindered unless they approach settlements — a policy that, however sensible, we found unsettling when we spotted clouds of smoke on our final day of paddling.
For obvious reasons, fires in coal mines are extremely problematic the exposed coalface burns, just as coal should, and smolders through the underground seam, where it's safely protected from any firefighting.
For obvious reasons, fires in coal mines are extremely problematic – the exposed coalface burns, just as coal should, and smolders through the underground seam, where it's safely protected from any firefighting.
The other reason fire was central to our history is less obvious to contemporary eyes: we used it to adapt the landscape around us to our purposes.
For some reason, fire investigators have adopted the notion that accelerated fires burn at higher temperatures than unaccelerated fires, where there is, in fact, no evidence to support this belief.
There were a million reasons to fire Corey Lewandowski.
"But evacuation can be for many reasons, weather, fire, as well as nuclear leaks.
"That's one of the reasons this fire's been able to burn so erratically".
Companies are forced to invent "disingenuous reasons" to fire staff because employment laws are stacked in favour of staff, the Conservative chairman has claimed.
A former Citigroup executive filed suit against the corporation yesterday, accusing it of age discrimination and of inventing reasons to fire him late last year.
