fire trails
Bushfire access routes
Fire trails are unpaved roads or cleared paths through forests and wildlands, maintained primarily for firefighting access.
Emergency vehicles use them to reach remote areas during wildfires, and they serve as firebreaks to slow the spread of flames.
In Australia especially, fire trails double as recreational routes for hiking and four-wheel driving: We took the fire trail up to the ridge.
- firebreakCleared barrier against flames
- bushfireUncontrolled wildland blaze
- wildfireUncontrolled vegetation blaze
- smokeAirborne combustion byproduct
- smoke hazeAirborne particulate obscuring visibility
rangers · forestry · backburn · controlled burn · containment · dirt road · dirt track · bulldozer · ember · brush · scrubland · eucalyptus · perimeter · escape route · dry season · ash · dry grass · wilderness
fire trailshighways
Major intercity roads
paved roads · freeways · motorways · expressways · interstates
fire trailsmain streets
Primary urban thoroughfares
commuter routes · shopping streets · high streets · arterial roads · pedestrian malls
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