fire
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There's no mobile phone signal and food is cooked over a wood fire.
From Barron's ● Jul. 21, 2026
Fewer fires, it said, "interrupts a sequence of years of fire expansion and returns the country to a historically lower level of burned area."
From Barron's ● Jul. 21, 2026
Bonta’s office, along with state fire marshal, are also challenging that oversight in court, arguing the lines that run through Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo and Kern counties were incorrectly reclassified as intrastate pipelines.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2026
These aircraft can only be called in after approval by the fire service incident commander, and when the landowner has "contractual arrangements" in place to cover the costs.
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026
Outside the tent is a fire pit; inside, a kerosene lamp.
From "Will’s Race for Home" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
But in another alteration, Damon’s Odysseus fires an arrow into the already blinded Cyclops’ eye as he escapes, giving the monster’s father, Poseidon, a new reason to make his journey home miserable.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026
Flames engulfed the world's largest tropical rainforest in 2024 when an unprecedented drought triggered the spread of fires, the majority of which were man-made.
From Barron's ● Jul. 21, 2026
Officials warned of elevated fire danger across large swaths of Southern California starting Tuesday, with a high risk of fast-moving and “plume-dominated” fires driven by heat and instability.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026
“I told them, I mean, you got to stop these fires from coming in and you know poisoning our air,” Trump said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026
I wonder if I can smell the smoke of their wood fires, more than thirty miles away, or if it is only our fort’s fires I am smelling.
From "Blood on the River" by Elisa Carbone
The Tunisian factory that makes the pool’s braided-pattern waterline tile, popular in the 1920s, hadn’t fired it in decades.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026
After Dimon was fired from Citigroup in 1998 and later became CEO of Chicago-based Bank One, he tried and failed to hire Bisignano, people familiar with the matter said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026
The effort calls for a blank slate by accepting new designs for seekers, rocket motors and other major components assembled into a missile that could still be fired from existing Patriot launchers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026
Pages chased down the ball and quickly fired to shortstop Betts, who threw it home.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 18, 2026
Chase pulled the handheld GPS out of his go bag and fired it up.
From "Storm Runners" by Roland Smith
Hiring and firing decisions cannot be based on a person’s race, religion, age, sex or other protected status, such as pregnancy.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 15, 2026
And SPI Asset Management's Stephen Innes added that the "Fed can keep the gun on the table without firing it".
From Barron's ● Jul. 15, 2026
An investigation by law firm Jenner & Block found that Michigan officials received repeated reports about Sherrone Moore before firing him.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026
The band is firing on all cylinders, the production is lively and open, and Price’s voice sounds fantastic.
From Salon ● Jul. 14, 2026
He said that Germany was firing back in retaliation.
From "Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
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