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"Peatlands and organic soils can smolder for weeks to years, releasing enormous amounts of ancient carbon."

From Science Daily ● Mar. 4, 2026

As a result, they may overlook slower, less visible fires that smolder deep within peat and organic soils.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 4, 2026

Passions still smolder below the surface, but there is not enough oxygen to let them flame into life.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 7, 2026

Federal investigators determined that the Jan. 7 fire was a so-called holdover from the Jan. 1 fire, continuing to smolder and burn underground after firefighters thought they had extinguished it.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2025

He had made new fire, which he now kept going using partially rotten wood because the punky wood would smolder for many hours and still come back with fire.

From "Hatchet" by Gary Paulsen

In Kim Eunho’s 1927 ink and color painting on silk, “Woman Reading the Fortune of the Day,” a hostess in traditional hanbok dress whiles away her break with gaming tiles as a cigarette smolders nearby.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 6, 2026

“A holdover fire is a fire that smolders undetectably,” Martin said in a statement.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 24, 2023

In "The Underground Railroad" he smolders as Royal, a free Black man who rescues an enslaved woman, Cora, from a heartless bounty hunter who never stops chasing her.

From Salon ● Dec. 26, 2021

As the Alisal fire smolders in Santa Barbara County, residents in Los Angeles and Ventura counties on Friday were bracing for the arrival of critical fire weather and the threat of Santa Ana winds.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2021

The trees seethe and the house smolders, and standing in the gravel of the driveway, the daylight nearly finished, the locksmith has an unsettling thought: Someone might be coming for us.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr

Prosecutors said the Lachman fire smoldered underground for a week before exploding into the deadly Palisades fire.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 25, 2026

As parts of the city smoldered, many turned to Didion’s aching, poetic rendering of a paradise lost.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 4, 2025

The blaze, which firefighters had said was contained hours later, smoldered underground in dense vegetation for days until powerful winds on Jan. 7 caused it to spread, authorities said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2025

That fire, which burned more than 54,000 LG battery modules, spewed toxic smoke into the air and smoldered for several days.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 25, 2025

He was lean, with sunken eyes that smoldered like half hidden coals.

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss

About a ton of smoldering chemicals in big drums had released chlorine-compound fumes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2026

The fire was no longer at risk of growing, but it will still be a couple of days before it stops smoldering, said Capt. Anthony Tubbs with the Los Angeles Fire Department.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 25, 2026

“Heartbroken beyond words,” Hilton wrote while sharing live ABC7 footage of the smoldering remains of her home.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 24, 2026

On Thursday, firefighters said the phenomenon caused a smoldering fire in an underground PVC drainage pipe, as well as significant flames and smoke off the hillside, the fire department said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 24, 2026

Not far from them was a smoldering mountain of uniforms and blankets.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan