Using a garden hose, he battled smoldering trees and bushes.
On the other hand, our conscientious parsing of particulars may lead us to miss the blazing forest for some smoldering trees.
Burying a fire might let the fire continue smoldering, catching tree roots or other dry brush on fire, protecting it from elements and letting it continue on without your knowing.[2].
New farm plots were smoldering, and without tree cover more karst would dry out, losing its ability to shelter toads.
On Valley Ridge Drive in Running Springs, firefighter Richard Valenzuela of the Brawley Fire Department stood in front of a green house with red wooden stairs, dousing smoldering lawn chairs and tree stumps.
Radu's burning corpse is left smoldering and impaled on tree branches, with his burning blood dropping to the ground; the flames go out and the blood morphs into new subspecies.
"It looked like a monster had stomped through the valley, leaving skeletons of compounds smoldering and tops of trees jagged and twisted," Bradley wrote.
A reporter who drove through the fire along Double Trouble Road, which parallels the parkway in Berkeley, saw a ghostly landscape of charred trees and smoldering ground under a pall of acrid, purplish-brown smoke.
The jewel beetle, Melanophila acuminate, is a living fire detector: It can sense forest fires from afar, moving in quickly to lay its eggs in the smoldering bark of burnt trees, where its young develop virtually free of competition.
