Sentence examples for suppress fire from inspiring English sources

From then on, the Forest Service determined to suppress fire on sight, giving rise to the famous "10 a.m. policy," under which every fire was to be controlled the morning after it was sighted.

He made the same observation about the Texas rangeland that critics have made about forest management in the American West: the human tendency to suppress fire at first sight has created a buildup of dry tinder that makes any wildfire that manages to break out "bigger than they ought to be," Mr. Kelton said.

Lebanese officials said that they had given the army the green light to stop the fighting, and at one point an army unit began using heavy machine guns to fire into the Alawite area in what turned out to be a failed effort to suppress fire from both sides.

The properties of the water mist are described by the cumulative volume fraction, the droplet transport equation, and the model of suppress fire.

By the 1900s, fire prevention strategies had moved beyond Franklin's admonitions "to take care how they suffer living coals in a full shovel" (Franklin 1735) to include passive technologies that suppress fire.

Richardson et al. (2000) suggested eight categories of transformer species: (i) excessive users of resources, (ii) donors of limiting resources (e.g. nitrogen fixers), (iii) plants that promote or suppress fire, (iv) sand stabilizers, (v) erosion promoters, (vi) sediment stabilizers on intertidal mudflats, (vii) litter accumulators and (viii) salt accumulators.

Fire suppression – involving the sophisticated use of firefighting vehicles to suppress fires soon after they start – is the most common form of fire management in Mediterranean ecosystems.

Did they know, for example, that sonic waves can be used to suppress fires, or that our brains actually "hear" silent movies?

Because of efforts to suppress fires since the 1940's, shade-loving trees like maples and poplars have taken over many forests.

Throughout America's west and south-west, encroaching suburbia has put pressure on forest managers to suppress fires as quickly as possible.

A screening concept is suggested for evaluating the effectiveness of fluids to thermally suppress fires.