spreading fire


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spreading fire

A notification by the spotter or the naval gunfire ship, depending on who is controlling the fire, to indicate that fire is about to be distributed over an area.
Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms. US Department of Defense 2005.
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It came over him like a fit; it was like a single spark kindled in his soul and spreading fire through him.
Firefighters say that only heavy rains, which are forecast to lash the affected Amazon region, can effectively douse the rapidly spreading fire. The Amazon is a vital carbon store that slows down the pace of global warming.
NOTHING SALVAGEDA combined force of the county fire fighters, the residents and the police managed to put out the fast spreading fire but nothing was salvaged."The learners were in their classrooms studying when suddenly fire broke out in the boys' dormitory," one of the witnesses, Mr Mbui Njeru said.
Pacres said the presence of plastic containers of gasoline caught the spreading fire which quickly engulfed the house which was made of light materials.
"Due to the strong winds, which were 10 to 11 on the Beaufort scale, the spreading fire's pace was disproportionate to the pace used for the areas evacuation," the fire chief said.
which is prone to get shortcircuit and spreading fire so set up.
People pulled out three children, but could not rescue the remaining two because of the fast spreading fire which also engulfed the adjacent huts.
The final process involved the addition of a ten-meter basket to carry the bombs; the installation of over ten thousand cubic feet of hydrogen gas so that the balloon could reach an altitude of thirty thousand feet; and the expectation that these devices would "infiltrate the United States, spreading fire throughout its forests and panic among its people" (46).
She has assured that those " spreading fire in the Valley" will be dealt with iron hand.
The house next door was also gutted by the spreading fire but no one was home.