How to Use fire line in a Sentence

fire line

noun
  • Crews are working to construct fire lines around the burn area and protect homes.
    — Lauren Penington, Denver Post, 5 Aug. 2025
  • Fire crews spent much of the day patrolling for any hot spots and picking up trash and hose from the fire line.
    — Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 30 Jan. 2025
  • Just below the fire line, a developer has plans to build more homes.
    — New York Times, 16 May 2022
  • Coates said crews have backed off and are building a fire break at the top of the ridge line northwest of the fire line.
    — Paighten Harkins, The Salt Lake Tribune, 15 Aug. 2023
  • His crews built a fire line that stopped the fire from reaching the communities.
    — AZCentral.com, 26 June 2022
  • Firefighter hand crews were on the ground cutting fire lines to help contain the blaze.
    — Noah Goldberg, Los Angeles Times, 4 Apr. 2026
  • The flames force firefighters to retreat to their secondary fire line.
    — WIRED, 15 June 2023
  • Crews from the task force found the dog while on the fire lines in Klamath County.
    — oregonlive, 26 July 2023
  • Edgar spent three days and two nights on the fire line, long enough for the containment effort to succeed.
    — Alexander Sammon, Harper's Magazine, 16 Oct. 2023
  • Haycraft also had to hike an hour or more to actually reach the fire line.
    — Bruce Selcraig, ExpressNews.com, 3 Oct. 2020
  • Owners scrambled to prepare a fire line in hopes of saving their land as the flames grew in the distance.
    — Dallas News, 21 Mar. 2022
  • Crews used seven fire lines and three master streams to contain the blaze, officials said.
    — Kate Armanini, Chicago Tribune, 29 Jan. 2024
  • The image below shows a helicopter flying along the fire line.
    — Terry Castleman, Los Angeles Times, 11 Dec. 2024
  • The crews at Holton clear brush and establish fire lines during wildland fires, the state said.
    — Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 27 May 2025
  • Spot fires remain a constant threat, sparked when embers jump existing fire lines.
    — Emma Bussey, FOXNews.com, 25 Aug. 2025
  • The north and east sides of the fire continue to be areas of focus for fire line construction.
    — Ca Wildfire Bot, Sacbee.com, 20 June 2025
  • When embers float from home to home on a crowded street, there’s no way to create fire lines to interrupt the flames.
    — Raymond Zhong, New York Times, 14 Jan. 2025
  • Berenguer watched as animals fled from the fire line — butterflies, deer, thumbnail-size frogs.
    — Alex Cuadros, New York Times, 4 Jan. 2023
  • The number of firefighters who were removed from the fire line was not reported.
    — Camila Pedrosa, Sacramento Bee, 24 July 2024
  • Four were taken to local hospitals, three of them airlifted from the fire line.
    — Alex Wigglesworth, Los Angeles Times, 14 July 2024
  • The fire line on the east side was holding, and crews were working to complete the hold line on the south side, officials said.
    — Jordan Parker, San Francisco Chronicle, 25 July 2022
  • Some firefighters were stranded on the fire line, and dozens of vehicles needed to be towed from the field and serviced.
    — Alex Wigglesworth, Los Angeles Times, 17 Sep. 2023
  • Two bulldozers showed up to dig a fire line along Hansen’s small vineyard, and firefighters dug by hand along the creek bed.
    — Mallory Moench, SFChronicle.com, 7 Oct. 2020
  • No homes were lost on the northeastern side of the fire nearest to the lake, and crews managed to carve more fire line along one edge of a fiery finger.
    — Sam Metz, Anchorage Daily News, 6 Sep. 2021
  • Crews on the fire's western and southern edges are focused on securing fire lines and containing the flames.
    — Lauren Penington, Denver Post, 6 Aug. 2025
  • Her hotel, which was full of tourists last week, was some three miles from the fire line and now empty, after the tourists were evacuated.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 2 Aug. 2021
  • Four fire trucks and two hand crews were working to construct a fire line to halt the progress of the flames as of Monday afternoon.
    — Angela Cordoba Perez, The Arizona Republic, 11 Apr. 2022
  • An engine crew, meanwhile, rolls to the fire line with a fire engine to pump water or fire-suppressing foam onto a blaze.
    — Jon Healey, Los Angeles Times, 12 Sep. 2024
  • Without hot days and strong winds, crews are able to fight the blaze directly, getting right up to the fire line to work on suppressing the flames.
    — oregonlive, 22 July 2021
  • Prescott said the erratic winds could shift and push the fire back on crews, and any new fire start could limit current crew's abilities on the fire line.
    — Olivia Munson, The Arizona Republic, 24 June 2021

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