How To Use Wildfire In A Sentence

The cake won and the news spread like wildfire. Times, Sunday Times
Reforestation is an essential step toward restoring forest areas damaged by wildfire.
The wildfire quickly spreads, consuming the thick, dried-out vegetation and almost everything else in its path.
Gossip about the women has spread like wildfire through the force. The Sun
The intense thunderstorm will quench the fires before they become wildfires and will dislodge the weaker numbers and prepare them for the next fire.

Some of those trees will reforest a site at Sikhote-Alin Reserve in the Far East that suffers from yearly wildfires.
Wildfire and Firecat barreled through the thick smoke, their laser rifles blazing an incandescent firestorm through the smoke.
The terrible news spread like wildfire. The Sun
The fire was raging through the area so quickly that people in the neighborhood were being herded onto buses and trucks to move them out of the path of the wildfire.
Over my years of working as a research ecologist for the U.S. Forest Service in Hawaii, I watched fountain grass repeatedly rise up like a green phoenix after ecologically devastating wildfires and rapidly establish in what to this species is a very favorable postfire environment of increased light and nutrients and decreased plant competition. Robert J. Cabin: The Wildfires in Hawaii Are a Loss for Our World
But in 2007, SMD worked hard to help during the California wildfires, deploying both airborne and spaceborne NASA assets at the direction of their AA Stern and Earth Science director Freilich. Is SMD Paying Attention to White House Priorities? - NASA Watch
The wildfire affected more than 12 square kilometres of natural bushland, with a number of dangerous situations developing throughout the day.
Prolonged dry periods and seasonal high winds in spring help create ideal conditions for wildfire to spread quickly through highly-flammable moorland undergrowth.
The researchers used microscopic analysis of particles from the Pleistocene-Holocene sediments collected from the California Channel Islands and compared them with modern soil samples that had been subjected to wildfires, as well as balls of stringy fungal material, called sclerotia, some of which were also subjected to a range of temperatures in a laboratory. Innovations-report
A wind-blown wildfire around the city of Conway has forced people to evacuate, about 60 homes.
It was a trend that spread like wildfire. The Sun
Tonight a massive wildfire to the northwest of Los Angeles has spread to more than 20,000 acres.
In Nevada, orange flames amid fields of green; an army of firefighters beating back a blaze of what is being called the meanest, ugliest wildfire to hit Carson City, the state's capitol. CNN Transcript Jul 17, 2004
What we have to remember, howeer, is that through social media, word now spreads like wildfire, and you must be prepared to respond if you're brand is threatened. Medlogs - Recent stories
A diverse mix of nearly 400 people discussed ways to improve forest health and address wildfire risks through locally driven efforts.
A computer virus which affected the operation of Google yesterday is spreading like wildfire.
Officials said the season's first wildfires burned with an intensity usually not seen until late summer, portending an especially dangerous and costly summer.
THOUSANDS of families fled yesterday when a huge wildfire engulfed homes in the suburbs of Athens. The Sun
Stories of dodgy matches spread like wildfire on a regular basis. The Sun
Since officials began aggressively suppressing wildfire, many of Florida's forests have been taken over by slash and loblolly pine.
They reduce wildfire damage, help fire-dependent species propagate, and remove competing species like red maple.
When low performance leads to an organizational crisis, rumors of executive malfeasance spread like wildfire among rank-and-file members.
Online rumors and misinformation are rampant and can spread like wildfire.
He saw no fire suppression, but scant brush and ample spacing of pines where wildfires regularly moved through the forests.
It went around like wildfire and stopped a lot of people going out. Times, Sunday Times
I glance like the wildfire through brugh and through land.” The Heart of Mid-Lothian
Cuts that are urgently needed to stop our country being engulfed by Europe's financial wildfire. The Sun
The wildfire scorched the forest and several homes
The issues of ecosystem management, forest health, and wildfire dominated the work of the Center in its first few years.
Technological change was the spark that ignited the wildfire of change.
A LUXURY home is reduced to a pile of ashes by a massive wildfire. The Sun
This is not surprising given the warm winter and early spring, said Larry McHale, West Vancouver supervisor for forestry, trails and wildfire.
- HIV prevention: arguably bad for pharmaceutical firms (my guess is that whatever they would gain is dwarfed by what they gain by selling HIV treatment) - Wildfire management: mostly government jobs, nothing for Big Business here collins and nelson (who control the outcome of the bill, let us not forget) are not lobbyists. Matthew Yglesias » Funny Little Facts
The heavy rain follows months of drought and soaring temperatures which helped trigger thousands of wildfires. The Sun
Suspicion spreads like wildfire around a table the moment you announce that you won't be drinking. Times, Sunday Times
They say it would do nothing to reduce the risk of wildfires but would degrade America's forests.
The news of his arrest spread like wildfire through the city. Times, Sunday Times
The dangerous poison is showing up everywhere: not just in smokestacks, lakes and oceans, fish, dental amalgams and vaccines, but also in Arctic sunrises, wildfire smoke, landfill emissions and homes.
Staff at a production company filmed the pair and the footage spread like wildfire on the web. The Sun
QUEEN RANIA OF JORDAN: On behalf of the people of Jordan, let me express my heartfelt concern for the citizens of Southern California, as they battle atrocious and dangerous wildfires. CNN Transcript Oct 26, 2007
Usually, news of the fault spreads like wildfire, and huge queues build up until the glitch is put right or the machine runs out of notes. Phantom cash machine withdrawals can haunt consumers
The mudslides were set off on Christmas Day after a downpour fell on hillsides that had been stripped of vegetation by wildfires in October and November.
A rumour had spread like wildfire that he was boycotting national team games.
Together, the courageous team battles a massive wildfire and Dusty learns what it takes to become a true hero. The Sun
MORE than 2,000 firefighters were last night battling a massive wildfire roaring through northern California. The Sun
News of his demise spread like wildfire and many an angler will have shed a tear. The Sun
Southern California's done its best to compound the damage by turning historic wildfire corridors into housing tracts, wetlands into marinas, flood plains into slurbs and deserts into parking lots.
Most people presumed, that like most hallucinatory drugs, it was originally made to help alleviate the symptoms of mental illness, but as soon as it hit the streets, it spread like wildfire.
It moved sharply, jerking its head and staring down at them with wildfire eyes, its fangs glimmering as it hissed, then disappeared.
The heavy rain follows months of drought and soaring temperatures which helped trigger thousands of wildfires. The Sun
More and more western communities surrounded by forests are responding to the threat of destructive wildfire with a wide range of economic and policy changes.
Reforestation is an essential step toward restoring forest areas damaged by wildfire.
BILL PAXTON, of the Texas Forest Service, describing the moisture content of Texas grass Sunday at what he called an "unheard of" 2% as wildfires continued burning in the drought-stricken state, where more than 34,000 acres have been consumed TIME.com: Top Stories
Cuts that are urgently needed to stop our country being engulfed by Europe's financial wildfire. The Sun
Yet times have changed and the dividend culture has caught on like wildfire across the globe. Times, Sunday Times
She is a lovely woman, and her chaparral is a delight; even if it was slightly surreal smelling this distillation of California with it's herbal woodiness and hint of wildfires with the smell of actual wildfires so prominent in the air. Fiddling while Rome burns
Hardy and well-adapted, these plants help hold soil in place and revegetate lands denuded by wildfire or disturbed by mining.
Panic spread like wildfire and the whole place was put into lockdown. The Sun
All remaining populations of the slickspot peppergrass are potentially vulnerable to naturally occurring events (such as wildfire), introductions of exotic species, development, and other human activities.
The heavy rain follows months of drought and soaring temperatures which helped trigger thousands of wildfires. The Sun
A wind-blown wildfire around the small city of Conway has forced people to flee some 60 homes.
Even armed with sound scientific data, federal officials may never solve the problems involving wildfire in America's forests and rangelands.
On land, the evidence for a dramatic increase in fern species just above the boundary suggests the presence of wildfires, for ferns are usually the first plants to recolonize an area devastated in this fashion.
A heatwave in southern Australia triggered wildfires that destroyed more than 100 homes. Times, Sunday Times
As proposals for hazardous waste incinerators sprouted up throughout the country, The Rush to Burn spread like wildfire.
That story took off like wildfire. Times, Sunday Times
Another wildfire movement was liberation theology, expressed in Base Ecclesiastical Communities.
It means 500 percent more floods, mudslides, hailstorms, drought, ice storms and wildfires.
Like a wildfire igniting in tinder-dry brush, it will only take one spark. Archive 2009-03-01
If you live in the woods and haven't planned how you'd make a fast dash in the face of a wildfire, you've got some thinking to do.
In modern drama there is no such thing as the rational counter to wildfire popular beliefs.
We have wildfires out there, and there are watchtowers that are empty because of his cuts.
Franklin knows that the hogan project will not solve all the problems for either the Navajo community or the overstocked forests still threatened by wildfire.
I have one really bad persicaria that came with the property that is huge and spreads like wildfire. New Design-Daylily Hill Edge « Fairegarden
Cuts that are urgently needed to stop our country being engulfed by Europe's financial wildfire. The Sun
Panama city beach condos a wordlessly undisputedly systematic sloe ago, i can easy wildfire how i neuropsychiatric to luau when i flagrantly thrombopenia to tetrao my littre. Rational Review
Some scientists argue about whether these conflagrations are really any bigger than the ones that came before, but nobody disputes the idea that controlled burning and brush clearing can reduce the likelihood of wildfire.
Rumours of his death spread like wildfire.
They're saying it could take a couple of days for that to happen, but if the winds don't cooperate, those three fires could merge and then you have what they call a catastrophic wildfire. CNN Transcript Oct 23, 2007
The best protection against loss, damage or injury due to wildfire is prevention.
Though fires burn quickly anyway - a 1935 wildfire in the Ocala National Forest burned 35,000 acres in just under four hours - man wants to regulate.
Hence, when something bad happens in an election year — the Mississippi River floods, wildfires burn in the West — the president is quicker to declare a federal disaster than he would in a nonelection year. Winning by a Landslide
I glance like the wildfire through brugh and through land. '' The Heart of Mid-Lothian
Currently, Dr. Lloyd is studying reintroduced populations of Eastern Bluebirds and Brown-headed Nuthatches in Everglades National Park in an effort to understand the environmental factors that drive variation in demographic rates, the effect of wildfire and fuels management on pineland birds, and the conservation and taxonomy of Brown-headed Nuthatches on Grand Bahama Island. Contributor: John Lloyd
It had only recently come out and spread like wildfire round my school. Times, Sunday Times
Basic information such as how hot a fire burned within its perimeters seems essential to guide management actions for rehabilitating burned areas and reducing the risk of destructive wildfire.
This, in conjunction with bad water, leads to the wildfire spread of many infectious diseases and greatly increases diarrhea among children.
Melosh et al. proposed that wildfires were ignited by the thermal energy radiated by re-entering ejecta following the asteroid impact.
The same day Deronda happened to see her losing like wildfire, and she bore it with immense pluck. Daniel Deronda
Recent research has covered restoration of degraded soils using mycorrhizae, the characterization of savannah-forest vegetation, auto-ecology of vegetative species, wildfire effects on floral permanence and composition and atmosphere-biosphere interactions. Canaima National Park, Venezuela
Sunday, August 08, 2010 environmental news stories sunday more stories you probably won't hear the white middle age dudes talk about on the sunday morning yacking shows. pollution reaches new high as smog smothers moscow. - a suffocating smog from wildfires hung over the russian capital on saturday, raising the concentration of dangerous pollutants to a new high as residents donned masks and dozens of flights were delayed at the city's airports - london independent russians seek shelter as fires rage out of control. - pollution from peat and forest fires raging around moscow surged to new highs on saturday as muscovites continued to flee the choking smog that has shrouded the city. - london financial times huge ice sheet breaks from greenland glacier. - a giant sheet of ice measuring 260 sq km has broken off a glacier in greenland, according to researchers at a us university - bbc southern michigan faces long recovery after oil spill. - the kalamazoo river disaster is historic in its own right, even if it only registers Skippy the bush kangaroo
Now there's movement to reduce the risk of destructive wildfire by increasing conditions for wildfires of renewal.
Future wildfire in circumboreal forests in relation to global warming. Climate change in relation to carbon uptake and carbon storage in the Arctic
She has found that air pollution has significantly weakened conifers such as ponderosa pines and Jeffrey pines, making them more susceptible to drought and bark-beetle attacks, and less resistant to fire (see the abstract "Air Pollution Increases Forest Susceptibility to Wildfires: A Case Study in the San Bernardino Mountains in Southern California" by Grulke, Minnich et al). Chris McGowan: A Clockwork Apocalypse: The Southern California Wildfire
Courageous ranch workers had to do their own backfiring, creating a line of burned brush so that the wildfire would not spread across it to other areas, McCullough said.
The blaze is near an area where a wildfire burned almost 10 square miles and 169 homes last month. Boulder Fire Evacuations Lifted After Winds Calm
These include protecting communities and key ecological resources from the threat of wildfire in the short term, while restoring ecosystems to conditions in which wildfire plays a regenerative rather than destructive role.
Russia yesterday said wildfires and drought had wiped out a QUARTER of its wheat crop. The Sun
He saw no fire suppression, but scant brush and ample spacing of pines where wildfires regularly moved through the forests.
The wildfire near Burbank, California, is spreading and about 60 homeowners have evacuated.
Thus the immediate result of a K / impact anywhere on Earth would be wildfire ignition over the entire planet.
This sandy sloping land had been protected from development prior to 1845, the year Henry built his house, more by its unsuitability to farming and susceptibility to wildfire than by any public sense of sacred value.
The work takes planters to the most damaged lands, where clearcutting or wildfires have left moonscapes of the ecosystem.
Once one child in the school has the infection, it spreads like wildfire.
Wildfires that scorched the West have emphasized the need for better road access for fire-fighting equipment; new ordinances are mandating wider roads with better turnarounds.
If wildfires continue we will see the added disappearance of bilbies, mala, long-tailed dunnart and the Centralian rockrat from our rangelands.
Since officials began aggressively suppressing wildfire, many of Florida's forests have been taken over by slash and loblolly pine.
Indeed, according to a study published in Science in 2006, the number of wildfires since 1986 has quadrupled, and the area of forest burned has sextupled (when compared to the period between 1970 and 1986) -- the direct result, the authors say, of a spate of longer, warmer summers. Jeremy Jacquot: Are Southern California's Wildfires a Harbinger of Worst Things to Come Under Climate Change?
And beware: the flowers might like your garden so much that they multiply like wildfire. Times, Sunday Times
Only a few weeks ago southern Australia was ravaged by heat, drought and wildfires. Times, Sunday Times
The Cedar Fire in San Diego County, which consumed almost 300,000 acres, burned 1,500 homes and killed 14 people, is the single worst wildfire in California history.
And next, we're going to go live to California for the very latest on the wildfires that are threatening celebrity mansions.
It was brought out forward in a wide-margined, beautifully decorated volume that struck the holiday trade and sold like wildfire. Chapter 43
The choice will soon be between a total nuclear weapons ban, and a wildfire spread of nuclear technology.
This fall, as we've witnessed the devastation of the California wildfires, we have been reminded yet again of the firefighters' brave deeds.
Historically, wildfire checked the spread of redcedar.
I glance like the wildfire through brugh and through land. The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Complete
In Northern California, a wildfire has spread a haze of smoke over 200 miles.
The tabtoxin is an pathogenic factor for the worldwide - occurred tobacco wildfire disease.
Wildfire, Entertainment Family, DJ Easy Rider and more will be supplying the very best in funky house, old skool garage, r'n'b, hip hop, bashment and slow jams. Voice Online
Cuts that are urgently needed to stop our country being engulfed by Europe's financial wildfire. The Sun
Rain brought renewed fears of mudslides in areas ravaged by wildfires last year.
Ms Roberts said wildfire warnings would break into programming and be broadcast at 15 minutes past the hour - repeated hourly if necessary.
Firefighters faced brutally hot, dangerously dry conditions as they battled a wildfire outside Palm Springs.
A different kind of threat tonight in Colorado, where a massive wildfire is spreading.
In 1967 a wildfire there burned a virgin stand of larch, Douglas-fir, and lodgepole pine, killing mature trees and burning the duff to the mineral soil.
In 1980, what had begun as a small controlled burn to create nesting ground for the bird turned into a massive wildfire, killing a Forest Service worker and engulfing the small village of Mack Lake.
The explanation was that the range was under more pressure than ever because of wildfires and drought.
Wildfire investigators in California are looking for marijuana growers tied to a Mexican drug cartel whom they suspect ignitd a blaze that has charred more than 87,000 acres of a national forest.
The already tinder-dry vegetation is further parched by the warm Santa Ana winds which blow in from the desert every year and also fuel any wildfires the moment they break out.
The foundation of a building is another area to come in contact with a spreading wildfire.
MONTANA FIRES 2 Montana wildfires each about 175 acres ANACONDA, Mont. Undefined
Flytraps (Dionaea muscipula) are only native to a small area that straddles the border between North and South Carolina, and they are falling victim to poachers, habitat destruction, and wildfire suppression. Carnivorous Plants Dwindling Across U.S. From Poaching And Habitat Destruction
Mr. EGAN: Well, the forest rangers themselves were called sissies and Teddy's Green Rangers, and the fire happens, and it's the first time the United States has tried to fight a wildfire. Teddy Roosevelt And The 'Burn' That Saved Forests
A broad cross-section of the community criticised local government, fire and land management authorities at a public forum last night, for not doing enough to stem the spread of wildfire.
He ran calling, ‘Wildfire, you stupid piece of horseflesh, get yer ass back here!’
They're making the most of the cooler weather in Southern California where a wildfire scorched more than 24,000 acres.
Past wildfires have led to increases in cases of asthma, pneumonia, bronchitis and heart attacks. Times, Sunday Times
In modern drama there is no such thing as the rational counter to wildfire popular beliefs.
Cholera spread like wildfire through the camps.
NGUYEN: What Nevada's governor calls the meanest, ugliest wildfire he has seen is still burning near Carson City, the state capital. CNN Transcript Jul 17, 2004
A veteran of fighting Western wildfires as a young man, Babbitt renewed his certification in 1994.
According to some expert prognostication on the Web, the king of natural resources may, once again, be consumed and wasted in spectacular wildfires.
There is Dick Wildfire being attired, with the aid of the _friseur_ and the tailor, and under the sneering inspection of Sam Sharp, his Yorkshire valet, according to the latest The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 87, January, 1865
Disastrous miscalculations and conflict can enkindle violent wildfires.
In spite of vehement denial, the rumour spread like wildfire.
The messages spread like wildfire across the social media site. The Sun
03 / 10 / 2009 LAVERNE - Residents in Laverne were forced to evacuate when a large wildfire threatened the Harper County town on Monday. NewsOK.com RSS - home
Wildfire has destroyed forests across the West.
Speculation about the source of the story spread like wildfire around the industry. Times, Sunday Times
Escape Fire refers to a 1949 tragedy in Montana in which 13 young firefighters died in a wildfire that was sweeping up a hillside.

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