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fire area

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noun

  1. any area of a building that is enclosed by fire-resistant partitions.


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“Most of the fire area is like this, where it would have killed a few of the seedlings and saplings but basically almost nothing else,” Hanson said.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 28, 2025

Andrew Slocum, who is working on 14 home rebuilds in the Eaton fire area, said builders were used to uncertainty from supply chain problems that emerged during the COVID-19 pandemic.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 17, 2025

County Department of Public Works for rebuilding in unincorporated areas — 76 in the Eaton fire zone and 22 in the Palisades fire area.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 21, 2025

The agency met its deadline despite the winter’s biggest storm, which prompted some mud flows and flash floods in the Eaton fire area and forced the closure of some parts of Pacific Coast Highway.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 26, 2025

She did not realize at the moment that the wind had turned; she thought she must have ridden into the fire area.

From Dennison Grant: a Novel of To-day by Stead, Robert J. C.