Sentence examples for wide fire from inspiring English sources

Now the long, narrow line of fire that had been spreading southeast became a wide fire front that charged northeast to a string of towns along the Maroondah Highway: first Narbethong, then Marysville, Buxton, Taggerty, and Alexandra.

The prefectural government, convinced, as everyone in Hiroshima was, that the city would be attacked soon, had begun to press with threats and warnings for the completion of wide fire lanes, which, it was hoped, might act in conjunction with the rivers to localize any fires started by an incendiary raid; and the neighbor was reluctantly sacrificing his home to the city's safety.

And 11.2 m wide fire isolation belt can effectively stop high-power fire spreading.

Robin Walker, Conservative MP for Worcester, said: "I'm glad we're not talking here about a kind of West Midlands wide fire service.

Four miles from camp, they left their trucks on the border of the wide fire line they called the "Shield".

An effort to bulldoze a wide fire break and set backfires to try to starve the fires of combustibles almost led to disaster when an unexpected change in wind direction brought the fires to within a hundred yards of parts of the town, forcing evacuations on September 6.

The air pistol range is the same as the air rifle range, giving each shooter a table, a 1 metre wide firing point, and a 10 metre distance between the firing line and the target line.

"Resources have been rushed to localized flare-ups … hoping that will control the much wider fire," notes Peter Jones in The Scotsman.

A 00.30 hotel-wide fire alarm teaches me that most dads sleep in full beachwear.

A 12 30 AM hotel-wide fire alarm teaches me that most dads sleep in full beachwear.

Bulldozer operators spent much of Sunday night and Monday morning carving extra-wide fire lines along the town of Clearlake's eastern border in an effort to corral the flames, while helicopters and tankers dropped fire retardant and buckets of water.