firebreak

How To Use firebreak In A Sentence

• Allowing people whose properties back on to the forest to keep their lawns watered would create a natural firebreak, said Calder.
• The only option for the section was to create a firebreak around the equipment and wait until the fire passed.
• Although the main purpose of these roads is to provide all-weather access, they can also serve as effective firebreaks if vegetation is kept to a minimum or eliminated.
• The precautions will include fire compartmenting, which is quite expensive and will involve a great deal of work because we will have to build firebreak walls to contain the house in compartments.
• Using a firebreak as a foot path, the men moved up the 1, 350-foot peak.
• Even the channel proved inadequate as a firebreak, as strong winds carried burning debris over two kilometres to Bruny Island to start fresh fires.
• The imposing stone structure served as a firebreak during the 1948 fire and the neighbouring presbytery, built of timber was saved from the flames.
• Making a stand with his firefighters from the Fleet Bridge and down to the Thames, James hoped that the River Fleet would form a natural firebreak.
• Crews worked on a firebreak in a nearby canyon to try to cut off an eastward route for the fire.
• A firebreak follows a tributary burn, the Shiel Rig Burn, and this leads onto the grassy west ridge of Shalloch on Minnoch.