Wildfire

Definition

wildfire /'waÇldfaÇǝ(r)/ n ေတာမီး။

Examples

1. ‘Prolonged dry periods and seasonal high winds in spring help create ideal conditions for wildfire to spread quickly through highly-flammable moorland undergrowth.’
2. ‘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.’
3. ‘Reforestation is an essential step toward restoring forest areas damaged by wildfire.’
4. ‘Now there's movement to reduce the risk of destructive wildfire by increasing conditions for wildfires of renewal.’
5. ‘A diverse mix of nearly 400 people discussed ways to improve forest health and address wildfire risks through locally driven efforts.’
6. ‘Wildfire has destroyed forests across the West.’
7. ‘Tonight a massive wildfire to the northwest of Los Angeles has spread to more than 20
8. 000 acres.’
9. ‘A different kind of threat tonight in Colorado
10. where a massive wildfire is spreading.’
11. ‘The wildfire near Burbank
12. California
13. is spreading and about 60 homeowners have evacuated.’
14. ‘In 1980
15. what had begun as a small controlled burn to create nesting ground for the bird turned into a massive wildfire
16. killing a Forest Service worker and engulfing the small village of Mack Lake.’
17. ‘This is not surprising given the warm winter and early spring
18. said Larry McHale
19. West Vancouver supervisor for forestry
20. trails and wildfire.’
21. ‘The wildfire quickly spreads
22. consuming the thick
23. dried-out vegetation and almost everything else in its path.’
24. ‘A broad cross-section of the community criticised local government
25. fire and land management authorities at a public forum last night
26. for not doing enough to stem the spread of wildfire.’
27. ‘The issues of ecosystem management
28. forest health
29. and wildfire dominated the work of the Center in its first few years.’
30. ‘The Cedar Fire in San Diego County
31. which consumed almost 300
32. 000 acres
33. burned 1
34. 500 homes and killed 14 people
35. is the single worst wildfire in California history.’
36. ‘Courageous ranch workers had to do their own backfiring
37. creating a line of burned brush so that the wildfire would not spread across it to other areas
38. McCullough said.’
39. ‘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.’
40. ‘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.’
41. ‘Though fires burn quickly anyway - a 1935 wildfire in the Ocala National Forest burned 35
42. 000 acres in just under four hours - man wants to regulate.’
43. ‘Historically
44. wildfire checked the spread of redcedar.’