Sentences with phrase «grass fires»

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.
Goldberg and Berna point out that it's unclear whether the cave's inhabitants knew how to start a fire from scratch or depended on flames harvested from grass fires outside the cave.
For most cars, the heat shield is in several sections (from front to back), and there are 2 «layers» of heat shields: one above the exhaust pipe to keep the heat away from the car, one below the exhaust pipe to prevent you from starting grass fires when you park off the road.
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.
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.
But the changes that Hlubik sees to bone and the surrounding dirt mean that a fire burned in the same place for at least an hour or two, she says, ruling out fast - moving grass fires.
The Preserve practices a «Patch - burn» procedure whereby they mimic the natural action of lightning - induced grass fires, burning off about a third of the preserve every year in patches, in controlled burns.
The danger areas are not limited to Kern, Riverside and San Diego counties, which have already experienced grass fires this year.
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.
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.
In April (hard as it is to believe in the midst of all this rain) we were experiencing a dry spell and were considering liability for grass fires which were affecting parts of the South Wales Valleys (read more here).
«You're nothing but a bunch of snakes slithering fast as you can from a grass fire,» he accuses.
Setting a grass fire and letting it run is often necessary.
Dumped into huge stockpiles, tires harbor vermin, contribute to the spread of disease by creating mosquito breeding grounds, and feed huge fires: In August 1998, a grass fire ignited 7 million tires near the town of Tracy in California's San Joaquin Valley, sending a plume of soot and noxious gas thousands of feet into the air.
In the summer, there were grass fires.
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 sparks caused a grass fire that was contained after growing to approximately five acres.
Weatherford, Okla. (KOKH)-- A wind turbine caught fire, causing a grass fire Wednesday in western Oklahoma.
After a winter that left record piles of snow in the mountains and drenched most of California's valleys, it's no surprise that it is grass fires that are fueling a fast start to the state's 2017 fire season.
Fire crews have been attending a grass fire on a mountain in Port Talbot.
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