How to Use fire line in a Sentence

fire line

noun

• Crews from the task force found the dog while on the fire lines in Klamath County.
  — oregonlive, 26 July 2023
• This week, fire crews came in and renewed that fire line.
  — Esther Mobley, SFChronicle.com, 4 Oct. 2020
• Coates said crews have backed off and are building a fire break at the top of the ridge line northwest of the fire line.
  — Paighten Harkins, The Salt Lake Tribune, 15 Aug. 2023
• His crews built a fire line that stopped the fire from reaching the communities.
  — AZCentral.com, 26 June 2022
• Edgar spent three days and two nights on the fire line, long enough for the containment effort to succeed.
  — Alexander Sammon, Harper's Magazine, 16 Oct. 2023
• The fire line on the east side was holding, and crews were working to complete the hold line on the south side, officials said.
  — Jordan Parker, San Francisco Chronicle, 25 July 2022
• In 2018, a fast-moving range fire killed a man near The Dalles who had been trying to cut a fire line between the flames and area wheat fields.
  — oregonlive, 23 Sep. 2020
• Owners scrambled to prepare a fire line in hopes of saving their land as the flames grew in the distance.
  — Dallas News, 21 Mar. 2022
• In Omo Ranch, close to where the fire started, a bulldozer ripped out trees to build a fire line and stop the blaze from spreading south.
  — Arkansas Online, 21 Aug. 2021
• Just below the fire line, a developer has plans to build more homes.
  — New York Times, 16 May 2022
• Four fire trucks and two hand crews were working to construct a fire line to halt the progress of the flames as of Monday afternoon.
  — Angela Cordoba Perez, The Arizona Republic, 11 Apr. 2022
• The flames force firefighters to retreat to their secondary fire line.
  — WIRED, 15 June 2023
• More than 1,800 firefighters are on the fire line for both fires in Orange County.
  — Fox News, 28 Oct. 2020
• No homes were lost on the northeastern side of the fire nearest to the lake, and crews managed to carve more fire line along one edge of a fiery finger.
  — Sam Metz, Anchorage Daily News, 6 Sep. 2021
• On the fire’s eastern side, personnel will burn fuels just west of the Crown King Trail and create a fire line there.
  — Mike Cruz, The Arizona Republic, 12 May 2021
• Within three days, both sides withdrew their troops to be at least 2 kilometers (1.2 miles) from the cease-fire line.
  — Brad Lendon, CNN, 30 Dec. 2021
• Without hot days and strong winds, crews are able to fight the blaze directly, getting right up to the fire line to work on suppressing the flames.
  — oregonlive, 22 July 2021
• Haycraft also had to hike an hour or more to actually reach the fire line.
  — Bruce Selcraig, ExpressNews.com, 3 Oct. 2020
• The wind is coming from the northwest which is pushing the fire line away from Redwood Canyon and toward the Giant Forest.
  — Sam Whiting, San Francisco Chronicle, 20 Sep. 2021
• Two bulldozers showed up to dig a fire line along Hansen’s small vineyard, and firefighters dug by hand along the creek bed.
  — Mallory Moench, SFChronicle.com, 7 Oct. 2020
• Crews used seven fire lines and three master streams to contain the blaze, officials said.
  — Kate Armanini, Chicago Tribune, 29 Jan. 2024
• Some firefighters were stranded on the fire line, and dozens of vehicles needed to be towed from the field and serviced.
  — Alex Wigglesworth, Los Angeles Times, 17 Sep. 2023
• The fire burned in rugged terrain, and a sudden change in weather made our trek through the Tule River Reservation to the fire line unsafe.
  — Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 2021
• The number of firefighters who were removed from the fire line was not reported.
  — Camila Pedrosa, Sacramento Bee, 24 July 2024
• Prescott said the erratic winds could shift and push the fire back on crews, and any new fire start could limit current crew's abilities on the fire line.
  — Olivia Munson, The Arizona Republic, 24 June 2021
• Her hotel, which was full of tourists last week, was some three miles from the fire line and now empty, after the tourists were evacuated.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 2 Aug. 2021
• The injuries happened on Aug. 7 when a tree fell while the four were helping create a fire line around the blaze, a Cal Fire official said in a statement.
  — Lyndsay Winkley, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Aug. 2021
• Firefighters build a fire line along Market Street, hoping to contain the blaze to the city’s southern districts.
  — WIRED, 15 June 2023
• Presumably the fire crews have a clear idea of the location of the fire line, and where the fire is headed, but none of this data appears to be publicly available.
  — Daniel Holz, Discover Magazine, 29 June 2011
• Crews used bulldozers overnight into Monday to create fire lines roughly the size of a two-lane road by removing flammable brush leading to the properties.
  — Hannah Fry, Los Angeles Times, 12 July 2024

Last Updated: 25 Dec 2024