ember
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Shawn Tyrie, a partner with McChrystal Group, acknowledged Tuesday that the satellite images they used don’t provide a “definitive picture,” particularly in cases with extreme wind, ember cast and smoke.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 30, 2025
India Today magazine called the film a "dead ember".
From BBC ● Jun. 25, 2025
Some residents in Rainham believe an ember from the fires on Arnolds Field might have started that blaze.
From BBC ● Mar. 14, 2025
‘We could have used a hundred fire engines by then. You already had ember casts reaching blocks ahead of the fire.’
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 17, 2025
Or was it just a stray ember from the flames?
From "Stella by Starlight" by Sharon M. Draper
In the 19th century, locomotives threw off hot embers that set nearby fields and barns ablaze.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026
"Our facilities and infrastructure for firefighting are very limited," he told AFP, standing on the smouldering embers of a peatland fire separated from a residential settlement by a narrow dirt road.
From Barron's ● Sep. 6, 2026
As the night grows black and the last embers start to dull, “Her Private Hell” sends you off to bed wondering if it could all be true.
From Salon ● Aug. 17, 2026
Firefighters quickly put out the Lachman fire, but investigators testified at trial in June that embers continued to smolder underground, reigniting on Jan. 7.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026
They ate most of the meat, leaving a little for day meal, and sopped up the juices with hawkbit roots baked in the embers.
From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver
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