Sentence examples for swath of fire from inspiring English sources

I also learned that I had driven, unseeing, through a large swath of fire damage.

Between 1670 and 1700 he redeveloped swaths of fire-damaged London to the west of the City, ignoring legal restrictions whenever he could get away it.

"I wasn't home, I wasn't able to get there and I had to evacuate". Once her tires were secure, she navigated around road closures and made her way over the mountain range as the fire exploded from 300 to more than 3,000 acres in a swath of forest that fire officials said had not burned since 1955.

In the West, drought is consuming a growing swath of territory, and fires are worse than ever.

But a political firestorm that ignited here last week after Prime Minister Antonis Samaras dared to fire a swath of once-untouchable civil servants may threaten to undo all that.

Dr. Wilber compared the procedure to cutting down a swath of trees to prevent a forest fire from spreading.

The promotion seemed to reinforce the growing influence of Mr. Skyler, who oversees a broad swath of city government, including the police, fire, transportation and environmental agencies.

Authorities say arsonist set fire that destroyed swath of Lake County town; firefighters make progress.

The functional purpose of all incendiary munitions, from historical Greek fire to modern day fuel-air bombs, is to ignite a robustly burning fire across a wide swath of the target area.

Motorists were dragged from their cars and beaten; stores along a wide swath of the city center were looted; fires were set; a citywide dusk-to-dawn curfew was imposed; and although calm was restored within a week, the city remained deeply riven and on edge.

A monster heat wave descended on Southern California on Sunday, bringing triple-digit temperatures across a large swath of the region and fueling dangerous fires in Silver Lake and San Diego County.