Examples of brushfire in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web: Noun Firefighters were battling a brush fire outside Beale Air Force Base, about 40 miles north of Sacramento, on Tuesday. — Gregory Yee, Los Angeles Times, 12 Oct. 2021 Hundreds of firefighters are battling a brush fire that sparked west of Santa Barbara, forced evacuations and shut down a portion of Highway 101, CBS Los Angeles reports. — CBS News, 12 Oct. 2021 San Diego firefighters were battling a brush fire near businesses in Barrio Logan on Wednesday afternoon. — Karen Kucher, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Sep. 2021 Firefighters were called Sunday morning to put out a brush fire near the Municipal Elevator in Oregon City. — oregonlive, 1 Aug. 2021 One rocket fell on the western outskirts of the city, lightly damaging a home and causing a brush fire. — BostonGlobe.com, 10 May 2021 Firefighters were working to extinguish a brush fire in a rural stretch of Palm Beach County on March 15, 2017 when crews discovered two burning bodies roughly 20 feet from Beeline Highway wrapped in bedding and plastic. — Danielle Wallace, Fox News, 7 Sep. 2021 All evacuation orders and warnings were lifted Tuesday afternoon as firefighters worked to fully contain a 1,427-acre brush fire on the boundary of San Diego and Riverside counties, officials said. — David Hernandez, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 Aug. 2021 In Los Angeles, firefighters quickly snuffed out a brush fire Sunday afternoon that scorched half an acre in the Hansen Dam Recreation Area, according to the Los Angeles Fire Department. — Alex Wigglesworth, Los Angeles Times, 1 Aug. 2021

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