Sentence examples for surface fire from inspiring English sources

In a surface fire, the heat forces the smoke plume into the atmosphere.

Crown fires advance through the tops of trees or shrubs more or less independently of the surface fire and are the fastest spreading of all forest fires.

The most prominent guns now are dual-purpose weapons (for antiaircraft as well as surface fire) measuring from 75 to 125 mm, or three to five inches.

This requires clearing surface and sometimes aerial fuels from a strip of land and then digging down to mineral soil to stop a creeping or surface fire.

Under the surface, fire crept through a virtually impenetrable peat bog, spewing the smoke that — until the wind shifted on Thursday, providing what meteorologists said was likely to be temporary relief — had been choking the Russian capital this summer.

Surface fires burn surface litter, other loose debris of the forest floor, and small vegetation; a surface fire may, and often does, burn taller vegetation and tree crowns as it progresses.

"But those were surface fires, not destroying the forest but just keeping an open setting".

But a more threatening challenge, deeper below the surface, fired the volcanoes and earthquakes in her poems – an event, as she put it, that "Struck – my ticking – through –".

Surface fuels amounts (especially grasses) and continuity, unbroken by trails, roads, etc., were critical in allowing the spread of frequent surface fires.

But environmental researchers have been clamoring for years for satellite researchers to expand monitoring to include areas thinned by logging and surface fires, rather than just areas that have been clear cut.

Moving up through the ranks you get to the Vandals with their cloaking devices and stealth tactics; the chunky, well-armed Fallen Captains protected behind personal force fields; the wizards who levitate above the surface firing energy balls.