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‘Firefighters are still trying to build a nine-mile fire line around the blaze.’
‘This fire has jumped the fire line three times in three days.’
‘During one of the most severe dry seasons in the reserve's history, when fires threatened nesting trees, the whole research team turned to creating fire lines.’
‘All along Colorado's fire lines, a tight supply of resources has been a problem for the firefighting effort, so a new wave of reinforcements is welcome.’
‘Everything inside the fire lines is reported as burned.’
‘The fire certainly paid no heed to the efforts of men, jumping fire lines and resisting every effort to contain it until cooler weather and moisture helped shut it down.’
‘They're building fire lines, they are clearing away the brush.’
‘I carry a rake, patrolling one flank of the fire, making sure it doesn't jump a pre-dug fire line.’
‘By June 23, the 452,000-acre fire had destroyed at least 423 homes and was about 35 percent contained by fire lines near Show Low.’