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Recent Examples of brush fire
Ceriello also helped train firefighters who battled drought conditions and a massive brush fire last year that destroyed about 4 acres of Manhattan’s Inwood Hill Park.
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Leonard Greene, New York Daily News, 18 Aug. 2025
Firefighters remain on scene Tuesday after a two-alarm brush fire sparked near Sacramento International Airport.
—Daniel Hunt, Sacbee.com, 13 Aug. 2025
Aurora firefighters tackled a 1-acre brush fire Monday afternoon that ignited along the Tollgate Creek trail near East 6th Avenue and Sable Boulevard.
—John Aguilar, Denver Post, 11 Aug. 2025
The Oxbow Bridge, connecting Cibola, Arizona, and California, collapsed due to a brush fire on Aug 1.
—Wren Smetana, AZCentral.com, 9 Aug. 2025
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Leonard Greene, New York Daily News, 18 Aug. 2025
Firefighters remain on scene Tuesday after a two-alarm brush fire sparked near Sacramento International Airport.
—Daniel Hunt, Sacbee.com, 13 Aug. 2025
Aurora firefighters tackled a 1-acre brush fire Monday afternoon that ignited along the Tollgate Creek trail near East 6th Avenue and Sable Boulevard.
—John Aguilar, Denver Post, 11 Aug. 2025
The Oxbow Bridge, connecting Cibola, Arizona, and California, collapsed due to a brush fire on Aug 1.
—Wren Smetana, AZCentral.com, 9 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for brush fire
forest fire
Noun
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The inflationary forest fire that many expected to see has yet to ignite.—
George Calhoun,
Forbes.com,
7 Sep. 2025
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The only safe way to get real fires was laying gas lines and creating gas burns, without releasing any particles in the air that would potentially cause a forest fire.—
Tomris Laffly,
Time,
6 Sep. 2025
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“Brush fire.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/brush%20fire. Accessed 4 Oct. 2025.
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