containment

As firefighters increase containment against Ventura County’s devastating Mountain fire, new access to burned areas has revealed even more damage from the blaze that exploded last week during an exceptional wind event.

As winds started to subside Thursday night, firefighters made their first inroads against the blaze, reaching 5% containment.

By Thursday morning, the fire had burned 14,500 acres with zero containment.

“Without containment, golden mussels are likely to spread to other freshwater bodies in California, and to other ports and inland waters of North America, and abroad.”

It's a metaphor for something and containment of some kind.