fire line

noun

1. firebreak.

Word History and Origins

Origin of fire line¹

An Americanism dating back to 1900–05

Example Sentences

The rest were glued to the big screen TV and watched the orange fire line spread fast and furious throughout the night.

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One firefighter sustained a blunt force trauma wound July 12 while working the fire line on the Green fire in the Shasta-Trinity National Forest, according to Deanna Younger, a spokesperson for California Interagency Management Team 10.

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One firefighter combating the barely-contained Green fire in the Shasta-Trinity National Forest sustained a blunt-force trauma wound while working on the fire line on Saturday, said Deanna Younger, a spokeswoman for California Interagency Management Team 10, the incident command team overseeing the fire response.

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Firefighters were protecting homes at the fire line, Nausha said, but embers being carried by 50-mph winds and 80-mph gusts were already lighting homes on fire as far as a mile away from the flames, behind firefighters.

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‘One structure catches fire … and it throws embers downwind to the next structure, and the sequence is pretty much unstoppable. There’s just no good way to build fire line in an urban environment.’

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