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fire trail

British  

noun

  1. a permanent track cleared through the bush to provide access for fire-fighting

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Each morning, she walks along a fire trail, dictating e-mails into her phone.

From New York Times ● Sep. 7, 2012

When one of the group injures his leg in a fall, there are mobile phones to summon a car along a fire trail.

From Time Magazine Archive

They were just starting on when Lew heard a peculiar little sound behind some bushes just off the fire trail.

From The Young Wireless Operator—As a Fire Patrol The Story of a Young Wireless Amateur Who Made Good as a Fire Patrol by Lewis E. Theiss

Quickly he selected two trees for supports, and climbing up first one and then the other, soon had his aerial dangling directly above the fire trail.

From The Young Wireless Operator—As a Fire Patrol The Story of a Young Wireless Amateur Who Made Good as a Fire Patrol by Lewis E. Theiss

They passed through the gap in the mountain and started to cross the bottom to the fire trail.

From The Young Wireless Operator—As a Fire Patrol The Story of a Young Wireless Amateur Who Made Good as a Fire Patrol by Lewis E. Theiss

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