fire on
Example Sentences
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Romania said it had mounted a rescue mission after "a fire on the ship Royad Mammadov" outside the country's territorial waters.
From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026
“We funded Chinook helicopters to drop more water and foam on the fire. We were doing anything we could, at frankly any expense, to try to minimize the impact of this fire on the community.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026
Last month, a fire on board a ferry killed one person and left five others missing while 211 were rescued in the Lombok Strait off Indonesia's Bali island.
From Barron's ● Sep. 13, 2026
A fire on the USS Gerald R. Ford that originated in the ship’s laundry in March injured two sailors and left 600 others without sleeping berths while deployed in the Middle East.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 5, 2026
They all sat around a roaring fire on blankets and sleeping bags and they seemed to all be Native, like me.
From "The Marrow Thieves" by Cherie Dimaline
