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Examples of firebreak
firebreak
Clear away anything that could be kindling for it and create a firebreak if you can.
From the ocregister.com
The concrete channel acted as a natural firebreak, fire Inspector Matt Levesque said.
From the dailynews.com
It spread when embers jumped a firebreak into Laguna Beach and Emerald Bay.
From the ocregister.com
The following summer, new infestations were found east of the firebreak.
From the jsonline.com
They decided to create a firebreak by blowing up buildings in its path.
From the stltoday.com
For a time, Fire Chief Charles Kamprad pondered dynamiting buildings to create a firebreak.
From the stltoday.com
Firefighters saved the cathedral block with a firebreak by blowing up buildings along Market.
From the stltoday.com
Others were dynamited by the army to create a firebreak.
From the nzherald.co.nz
Turn left off the forest track and follow the rocky, and often muddy, firebreak through the pines and down to Lawson Park.
From the telegraph.co.uk
- A narrow field that has been cleared to check the spread of a prairie fire or forest fire
- A firebreak (also called a fireroad, fire line or fuel break) is a gap in vegetation or other combustible material that acts as a barrier to slow or stop the progress of a bushfire or wildfire. ...
- Naturally occurring (ie. a river) or man-made barrier (ie. road) free of combustible materials to prevent the advance of a ground fire.
- Any natural or constructed discontinuity in a fuelbed used to segregate, stop, or control the spread of fire or to provide a control line from which to suppress a fire.
- (forestry) An existing barrier, or one constructed before a fire occurs, from which all or most flammable materials have been removed.
- A strip of land maintained clear of trees and woody fuel, to stop or control the spread of fire.
- Any nonflammable barrier used to slow or stop fires. Several types of firebreaks are mineral soil barriers; barriers of green, slow-burning vegetation; and mechanically cleared areas.
- An effectively fuel-reduced area primarily managed to retard or prevent the spread of fire.
- (1) A strategic space between buildings, clusters of buildings, or sections of a city that helps to keep fires from leaping or spreading to surrounding areas before they can be contained. (2) Any doors, walls, floors, or other interior structures engineered to go inside a building.
