| Tinkering in his blacksmith shop, he created a tool that's half ax, half mattock, and ideal for digging firebreaks. |
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| Large firebreaks are being cut into the Park destroying habitat important to endangered and threatened species. |
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| They opened firebreaks in lower areas, around 1,600m above sea level, to prevent the fire from spreading down the mountain. |
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| Firefighters are now using bulldozers to build massive firebreaks around threatened mountain resorts. |
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| As a consequence, the fire regime has been influenced by an increase in ignition sources, by changes in the fuel load, and by the creation of firebreaks. |
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| These include preparation of firebreaks, maintenance of fire-fighting equipment, and liaison with neighbours and a fire protection officer in the area when a fire breaks out. |
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| But a driving east wind fanned the flames across firebreaks, and, despite the efforts of ward and parish officials and the lord mayor, they soon became uncontrollable. |
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| These crops offer protection against erosion and desertification and play the role of firebreaks. |
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| The track follows bush tracks, firebreaks and disused railway lines and has sections for of all levels of cycling experience. |
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| Support for maintaining forest firebreaks through agricultural activities shall not be granted for areas benefiting from agrienvironment support. |
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| This attachment is best suited to cutting firebreaks in forests and clearing wild vegetation along public roads. |
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| It is ideal for municipal and landscaping work, controlling vegetation alongside roads and pavement and making firebreaks in forests. |
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| With plenty of power at your disposal, preparing firebreaks or dams couldn't be easier. |
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| Description of plan for the establishment and maintenance of firebreaks including clearings and other infrastructure that is deemed necessary. |
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| Although the main purpose of these roads is to provide all-weather access, they can also serve as effective firebreaks if vegetation is kept to a minimum or eliminated. |
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| Of these measures, I should like to highlight the urgent need to reinstate aid for creating firebreaks and the call for the mobilisation of the Solidarity Fund. |
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| It's excellent for containing slash burns and for cutting trails and firebreaks. |
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| The Leader of the Firebreak Task Force checks that there are no casualties before repositioning his resources to tackle the blaze and to make new firebreaks. |
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| Company owner Merrill Cook said the plant was constructed to withstand fire, with underground tanks and large natural firebreaks. |
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| Do the actual firebreaks agree with the description in the licence? |
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| Just in case, firebreaks are being bulldozed well ahead of the blaze to protect the city of Santa Paula and the rustic Ojai area. |
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| Right here in this Parliament, we have called in vain for the renewal of the 1992 regulation under which funding would be provided for fire-prevention equipment such as firebreaks, access roads and monitoring systems. |
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| Artificial barriers can be roads, railways, canals, and power-line tracks, but usually extra firebreaks must be cut to link these and provide wider gaps that fire cannot readily jump. |
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| Today, the only place I can go to take a photo of grass is in the firebreaks. |
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| Roads have been widened to serve as firebreaks and emergency routes. |
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| They created firebreaks by blowing up houses on a large scale in the vicinity, halting the advance of the fire. |
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| The wind dropped on Tuesday evening, and the firebreaks created by the garrison finally began to take effect on Wednesday 5 September. |
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| Forest managers, for example, try to prevent the spread of wildfires throughout a forest by building firebreaks that follow changes in the landscape, such as those that separate one patch of trees from another. |
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| Effective fire control begins with a field survey and map to identify the areas at risk, delineate them, and define and improve the barriers or firebreaks that may limit fire spread. |
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| All stud spaces in the wall need to be filled but there should be allowance for windows and doors, firebreaks, cross braces and other obstructions in the wall cavity. |
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| As Tahoe Donner's program gains momentum, major firebreaks appear in strategic places, brush and slash disappear around homes, and community support grows. |
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| Strong winds drove night-time fires across roads and through firebreaks. |
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| This drastic method of creating firebreaks was increasingly used towards the end of the Great Fire, and modern historians believe that it was what finally won the struggle. |
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| With water mains out of service, the Presidio Artillery Corps attempted to contain the inferno by dynamiting blocks of buildings to create firebreaks. |
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