How To Use Firebreak In A Sentence
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Allowing people whose properties back on to the forest to keep their lawns watered would create a natural firebreak, said Calder.
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The only option for the section was to create a firebreak around the equipment and wait until the fire passed.
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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.
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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.
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Using a firebreak as a foot path, the men moved up the 1, 350-foot peak.

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Even the channel proved inadequate as a firebreak, as strong winds carried burning debris over two kilometres to Bruny Island to start fresh fires.
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The imposing stone structure served as a firebreak during the 1948 fire and the neighbouring presbytery, built of timber was saved from the flames.
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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.
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Crews worked on a firebreak in a nearby canyon to try to cut off an eastward route for the fire.
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A firebreak follows a tributary burn, the Shiel Rig Burn, and this leads onto the grassy west ridge of Shalloch on Minnoch.
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But a driving east wind fanned the flames across firebreaks, and, despite the efforts of ward and parish officials and the lord mayor, they soon became uncontrollable.
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Firefighters are now using bulldozers to build massive firebreaks around threatened mountain resorts.
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Tinkering in his blacksmith shop, he created a tool that's half ax, half mattock, and ideal for digging firebreaks.
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These builders had a contractual duty to build this wall so as to act as a firebreak.
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Something tells me they'd bulldoze a damn big firebreak at one of the passes before letting the thing get down here.
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No one yet has identified how big the firebreak would have to be, but it could easily encompass not only portions of Michigan but areas of Ohio and Indiana.
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The Home Paddock was nothing less than a gigantic circular firebreak.
THE THORN BIRDS
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Instead of going it alone, we Australians should put the firebreak behind us and co-operate with other countries seeking international solutions to these problems.
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They opened firebreaks in lower areas, around 1,600m above sea level, to prevent the fire from spreading down the mountain.
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As a consequence, the fire regime has been influenced by an increase in ignition sources, by changes in the fuel load, and by the creation of firebreaks.
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Large firebreaks are being cut into the Park destroying habitat important to endangered and threatened species.
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The FWS had prohibited ‘disking’ firebreaks and farming in designated rat habitat, and the Domenigonis had allowed rat habitat to grow by fallowing their fields.
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If the tree canopy goes on fire, go to the far side of a firebreak (man-made or natural such as a river) and try to prevent sparks starting a fire in your area.
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‘About 150 firefighters are working 12-hour shifts and are in the process of beating, making firebreaks and dousing the flames with hoses,’ Gous said.
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Firefighters are now using bulldozers to build massive firebreaks around threatened mountain resorts.
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Ian, the sanctuary manager, has been busy on the grader putting the finishing touches to a firebreak.
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Crews worked on a firebreak in a nearby canyon to try to cut off an eastward route for the fire.
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Tinkering in his blacksmith shop, he created a tool that's half ax, half mattock, and ideal for digging firebreaks.
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The neutron bomb was not only squelched, but all development stopped as a matter of policy because it was even worse than low-yield nuclear warheads in eroding the nuclear firebreak.
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These include preparation of firebreaks, maintenance of fire-fighting equipment, and liaison with neighbours and a fire protection officer in the area when a fire breaks out.