fire lines
Cleared defensive strips
Fire lines are barriers created to stop the spread of wildfires, typically strips of land cleared of vegetation down to bare soil.
Firefighters dig fire lines by hand or with heavy equipment, removing fuel so flames have nothing to burn when they reach the gap.
The term also applies to natural barriers like rivers or roads that serve the same purpose.
Crews worked through the night cutting fire lines around the blaze.
- firebreakCleared barrier against flames
- containmentPreventing hostile expansion
- wildfireUncontrolled vegetation blaze
- red flag warningOfficial extreme fire hazard notice
- brushBristled cleaning tool
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- fire safetysmoke detectors, evacuation plan, smoke alarms, sprinklers, assembly point
- fire scienceignition, combustion, flames, burning, pyrolysis
fire linesfire retardant
Substance that inhibits ignition
water bombing · sprinkler systems · direct attack · water cannons · backburning
fire linesfuel
Energy source material
kindling · accelerant · tinder · dry brush · deadwood
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