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A non-combustible perimeter using materials like gravel, free of plants, wooden decks and furniture, to stop windblown ember ignitions.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026

A non-combustible perimeter using materials like gravel or hardscaping—free of plants, wooden decks and wooden outdoor furniture—to stop windblown ember ignitions.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026

Marrone said he believed they should have taken the ember cast into account.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 30, 2025

Some residents in Rainham believe an ember from the fires on Arnolds Field might have started that blaze.

From BBC ● Mar. 14, 2025

I take his spoon, fish out an ember from our fire, and send him on his way.

From "Blood on the River" by Elisa Carbone

Clasby had stayed behind and put out embers landing in trees.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2026

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

Djokovic's refusal to disappear from contention on the sport's biggest stages has prolonged the final embers of the 'Big Three' era that captivated crowds for the best part of two decades.

From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2026

But a grizzly could have knocked it over, scattering glowing embers, bits of wood that could ignite a fire.

From "I Survived the Great Alaska Earthquake, 1964" by Lauren Tarshis