How to Use brush fire in a Sentence

brush fire

noun

• Wildfires break out there often but the blazes burning through dry grass and pine forests this spring, after a warm and dry winter, are far larger than the typical brush fires in the Chernobyl zone.
  — Maria Varenikova, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2020
• Local authorities received an emergency call at 9:47 a.m. alerting them to a brush fire in the hills of Calabasas.
  — Erin Ailworth, WSJ, 28 Jan. 2020
• Due to a brush fire caused by the crash, initial rescue efforts were hampered, according to The Los Angeles Times.
  — Connor Letourneau, SFChronicle.com, 26 Jan. 2020
• The county's Fire Chief Daryl Osby confirmed that the helicopter crash started a brush fire that covered a quarter acre.
  — Madison Dibble, Washington Examiner, 26 Jan. 2020
• The over-pressurization anomaly started several small brush fires that were put out by the Cocoa Fire Department.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 21 Feb. 2020
• Feeding off nitrogen-laden smog wafting in from the Los Angeles area, the grasses left Joshua tree forests vulnerable to large-scale brush fires.
  — Los Angeles Times, 13 Apr. 2020
• In 2005, a small brush fire was traced back to a hot vent from the fire.
  — Matthew Brown and Colleen Slevin, The Christian Science Monitor, 31 Jan. 2022
• Be aware of a road closure due to a brush fire burning in the riverbed in @CityofSantee.
  — Karen Kucher, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Sep. 2020
• The Cedar Basin Fire is a brush fire burning about 14 miles east of Wikieup.
  — Alta Spells and Laura James, CNN, 11 July 2021
• There was also a brush fire on the island of Kea, near Athens.
  — Chris Morris, Fortune, 19 July 2024
• In this case, the device sparked a fast-moving brush fire.
  — Julia Wick, Los Angeles Times, 20 July 2021
• The brush fire was in a sloping field along Lahainaluna Road.
  — Jon Schuppe, NBC News, 19 Sep. 2023
• Fire crews in the air and on the ground attacked a brush fire in Santee on Wednesday afternoon.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Dec. 2020
• Here's the paragraph: Maui isn’t the only island on Hawaii dealing with brush fires.
  — Kimberlee Speakman, Peoplemag, 12 Aug. 2023
• Cleveland does have brush fires – a fire that involves a low-growing plant.
  — Olivia Mitchell, cleveland, 18 Aug. 2023
• There was also a small brush fire near the wreckage, the sheriff’s office said in a statement.
  — Omar Rodríguez Ortiz, Miami Herald, 25 Jan. 2024
• The winds are leading to a high brush fire potential across the region, largely in part due to the direction of the wind.
  — Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 24 Nov. 2022
• That day, a brush fire was burning near the high school and had caused the school to lose power in the afternoon, but the power came on before the 6 p.m. game.
  — Lori Riley, courant.com, 10 Mar. 2021
• The Danvers fire comes less than a week after another brush fire in Townsend.
  — Camilo Fonseca, BostonGlobe.com, 12 July 2022
• Three agencies are fighting a brush fire outside of Wilsonville that threatens a home and a field of horses.
  — The Oregonian, oregonlive, 5 Aug. 2023
• Fire crews would have had to balance the risk that the powerful winds might reignite the morning brush fire against the need to use resources elsewhere.
  — Mike Baker, New York Times, 23 Aug. 2023
• On Tuesday evening, a brush fire broke out near Corona Airport.
  — Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 3 Dec. 2020
• Howling winds, then a brush fire Lisa Vorpahl, a bank teller, woke to the sound of someone shuffling on her lanai.
  — Joshua Partlow, John Farrell, Brady Dennis, Brianna Sacks and Joanna Slater, The Washington Post, Anchorage Daily News, 14 Aug. 2023
• In August 2018, brush fires broke out as Hurricane Lane neared Maui.
  — Isabelle Chapman, CNN, 11 Aug. 2023
• And fire officials worked overnight Friday to put out remaining hot spots from the brush fire.
  — Sophie Reardon, CBS News, 11 June 2022
• An aide also added that the downing had ignited a small brush fire that was contained.
  — Victoria Kim, New York Times, 30 Aug. 2023
• Two days earlier, a brush fire scorched an empty field northwest of town.
  — Los Angeles Times, 3 Nov. 2022
• One rocket fell on the western outskirts of the city, lightly damaging a home and causing a brush fire.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 10 May 2021
• The two men had worked with a grinder when sparks from the equipment started a brush fire, according to the Cochise County Sheriff's Office.
  — Jose R. Gonzalez, The Arizona Republic, 24 Apr. 2024
• Compounding the service impacts caused by the Amtrak overhead wires, there is a significant brush fire in the vicinity of County Rd.
  — Joseph Wilkinson, New York Daily News, 20 June 2024

Last Updated: 5 Oct 2024