Sentence examples for surviving fire from inspiring English sources

A complete restoration of a rare surviving fire engine to working order by the Museum of London has demonstrated that it was so heavy it would have been painfully slow to move it through the narrow cobbled streets.

The 15 essays include a history of the tallest buildings in New York and the story of the only surviving fire tower in New York City, a three-tiered cast-iron watchtower at the summit of Marcus Garvey Park in Harlem.

We expected trees surviving fire to exhibit increased crown vigor over time since fire.

The proportion of animals surviving fire seemed to be fairly independent of burning depth (42 to 62% survival rate).

Since dispersed pieces of manuscripts stand a better chance than complete books of surviving fires, floods, and war, breaking books actually prolongs their survival.

This species is fully capable of surviving fires and subsequently out-competing native vegetation in lowland landscapes after a significant disturbance (D'Antonio and Vitousek 1992; Pivello et al. 1999; Ammondt et al. 2013).

After all, he had survived fire, flood and a great deal else.

Antigua survived fire, floods, and volcanic eruptions until much of it was destroyed by the Santa Marta earthquakes of 1773.

After all, it has survived fire before: following a major blaze shortly after the second world war, timbers were brought down the coast from Lowestoft's damaged pier and used to restore it.

Westfield's Men, the itinerant troupe in Edward Marston's vibrant Elizabethan mystery series, have survived fire, plague and the wrath of Puritan censors to soldier on in their punishing profession.

Cushioned by wire grass, which evolved along with the resin-soaked pines to survive fire, this elegant ecosystem harbored nearly 200 species of plants and animals, like gopher tortoises, cockaded woodpeckers, indigo snakes and salamanders.