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There’s just no good way to build fire line in an urban environment.’
— Tim Chavez
Hour 11: Death and despair
After 10 hours, entire streets are ablaze.
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Terry Castleman, Los Angeles Times, 17 Jan. 2025
Bird noise gives way to a low drone, which then multiplies, creating a harmonic buzz—a chorus of leaf blowers, Bachman explains, similar to the models used to clear fire lines and recorded years earlier at a landscaping job.
—Brendan Fitzgerald, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Dec. 2024
This is how firefighters from neighboring states like Nevada and Arizona can currently be found on the fire lines in L.A., and why the aircraft overhead bear liveries from nearby Orange County and faraway Quebec.
—Jay Balagna, The Mercury News, 23 Jan. 2025
Instead, they’re often used to build a barrier called a fire line, a strip of land that has been cleared of flammable material down to bare soil.
—George Petras, USA TODAY, 14 Jan. 2025
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Terry Castleman, Los Angeles Times, 17 Jan. 2025
Bird noise gives way to a low drone, which then multiplies, creating a harmonic buzz—a chorus of leaf blowers, Bachman explains, similar to the models used to clear fire lines and recorded years earlier at a landscaping job.
—Brendan Fitzgerald, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Dec. 2024
This is how firefighters from neighboring states like Nevada and Arizona can currently be found on the fire lines in L.A., and why the aircraft overhead bear liveries from nearby Orange County and faraway Quebec.
—Jay Balagna, The Mercury News, 23 Jan. 2025
Instead, they’re often used to build a barrier called a fire line, a strip of land that has been cleared of flammable material down to bare soil.
—George Petras, USA TODAY, 14 Jan. 2025
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“Fire line.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fire%20line. Accessed 21 Feb. 2025.
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