Sentences with phrase «grass fire burned»

In Hanford alone, electric car manufacturer Faraday Future came to the old Pirelli Tire plant, a 48 - acre grass fire burned and a local high school grad talked about her job with the Denver Broncos.

Not exact matches

Rev 8:7 The first angel sounded, and there followed hail and fire mingled with blood, and they were cast upon the earth: and the third part of trees was burnt up, and all green grass was burnt up.

Of course, this was the 70s, so the race didn't stop or anything as sensible as that and the field kept racing around the burning wreckage whilst marshals literally trained their fire extinguishers on Ickx, who was rolling around on the grass whilst on fire.

Blazing fires could burn down existing stands, opening room for colonization by faster - growing prairie grasses or other plants.

«Before Europeans moved into the territory, fires regularly moved across the landscape, killing shrubs but not grasses, which had evolved to burn, but not die, during the process,» he says.

Brain suspected that they had been burned by humans because the degree of charring indicated temperatures of more than 1,100 degrees Fahrenheit, while natural grass fires on the savanna burn no hotter than 700 degrees.

Fires would run for 30 miles low to the ground, burning grasses but leaving most of the trees intact.

Another key to restoration is to encourage the growth of diverse grasses, which burn quickly and minimize fire damage to the soil.

Stein Mano and Meinrat Andreae of the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry in Mainz studied smoke samples from fires in Siberian forests, Californian chaparral and South African savanna, and from grass - burning experiments in their laboratory.

«But when native savannas are invaded by weeds such as gamba grass, fuel loads are dramatically increased and fires can burn up to five times hotter than a native wildfire,» Dr Adams said.

Gifford Miller, a geologist at the University of Colorado at Boulder, and his colleagues believe people systematically burned the nutrient - rich grasslands, inadvertently transforming them into the expanses of fire - tolerant, less nutritious grasses found in Australia today.

He rolled around in the grass to extinguish the fire but was left with severe burns which developed gas gangrene.

And so it was my first week in Medgar — a Dumpster fire in back of Hivey's Farm Supply; a grass fire on a clear hillside that got taken by the wind and nearly lost control; an old foam car seat that burned ugly black smoke and stung my lungs when the wind shifted.

The sightings of numerous smokes may have been signal fires, passing on the news of the strange craft out to sea, but are just as likely to have been grass fires for burning off in search of game.

The early escalation in California grass fires fits the pattern of blazes that by 2050 will double the annual acreage that burned over the last 30 years, forest service officials reported.

Structures in the wildland - urban interface suffered immense damage during the Thomas Fire, especially in the city of Ventura, where the vast majority of buildings that burned were in that zone of transition between concrete and grass.

Every spring firefighters throughout the West approach the summer season with a proverbial prediction: If the winter was dry, all those parched trees will burn like torches; if it was a wet winter, all those new grasses will fuel quick fire starts and hot, runaway flames.

Massive grass fires in Oklahoma and Kansas punched up the acreage early in the year, followed by stubborn fires in Florida and Georgia that burned into May.

Here, in recent years, vast fires have burned through grass, forest and permafrost alike.

Workshops with children in Russia's Astrakhan region where burning dry grass is a big problem for the forest and fire department © Maria Vasilieva / Greenpeace