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Origin of fire line

An Americanism dating back to 1900–05

Words nearby fire line

fire irons, Fire Island, fireless, fireless cooker, firelight, fire line, firelock, fireman, fire marshal, firenado, Firenze

How to use fire line in a sentence

The crew would start in the morning, suited up in fire-resistant clothing and hard hats, and build a fire line.
Prescribed burns can keep wildfires in check. So why are politicians standing in the way?|Madeline Ostrander/Undark|October 27, 2021|Popular-Science
With a few clicks, he laid four tiny virtual fires along the real fire’s edge, on the far side of the fire line that had blocked its progress.
What the complex math of fire modeling tells us about the future of California’s forests|Amy Nordrum|January 18, 2021|MIT Technology Review
We literally cut a fire line around one of the sheriff’s homes.
How We Saved Our Neighborhood from a Wildfire|Dain Zaffke|September 2, 2020|Outside Online
My house was always outside the fire line, but one area we likely saved was surrounded on three sides.
How We Saved Our Neighborhood from a Wildfire|Dain Zaffke|September 2, 2020|Outside Online

The story, inevitably, returns her to the fire line at a later point.
When Fiery Fact Imitates Fiction: A Deadly Arizona Fire Mirrored One Writer’s Novel|Michael Koryta|June 9, 2014|DAILY BEAST
McGettigan asked, at the beginning of what would be a rapid-fire line of questioning.
Jerry Sandusky Trial, Day Five: Sandusky’s Defense Flails|Diane Dimond|June 18, 2012|DAILY BEAST
Your job is to watch a fire line that runs along this side of the base of that point yonder.
Pluck on the Long Trail|Edwin L. Sabin
The fire line looked like some old wood-road, where trees had been cut out and brush cleared away.
Pluck on the Long Trail|Edwin L. Sabin
What I had164 to do was to run back and forth along the fire line, crushing the dragon's claws.
Pluck on the Long Trail|Edwin L. Sabin
By the time the fire-line had advanced to the steeper slopes it was one vast U about three miles long.
The Rocky Mountain Wonderland|Enos A. Mills
Then together they bore him, now unconscious, slowly down below the first fire-line.
Bob Hampton of Placer|Randall Parrish