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    A firebreak or double track (also called a fire line, fuel break, fireroad and firetrail in Australia) is a gap in vegetation or other combustible material...
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  • with World Championship Wrestling from 1991 to 1992 under the ring name Firebreaker Chip. Curtis Thompson started wrestling in 1987 in NWA. Subsequently...
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    An oxygen firebreak, also known as a fire stop valve or fire safety valve, is a thermal fuse designed to extinguish a fire in the delivery tube being...
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  • The Firebreak Stakes, is a horse race, for horses aged four and over, run over a distance of 1,600 metres (one mile) on dirt in February at Meydan Racecourse...
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    use of the major firefighting technique of the time, the creation of firebreaks by means of removing structures in the fire's path, was critically delayed...
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    and non-essential shops would be closed during that period. After the firebreak, rules were standardised across Wales with localised restrictions abolished...
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    bootlegs and mashups through their SoundCloud page, Confidence Man released "Firebreak", an instrumental house single that they had been performing at shows...
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    material. Some forms of graphite are used for thermal insulation (i.e. firebreaks and heat shields), but some other forms are good thermal conductors. Diamond...
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    city officials had ordered buildings torn down to create long, straight firebreaks. These continued to be expanded and extended up to the morning of 6 August...
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    from hiking trails, parks, or other places where people recreate. For firebreaks, the product is simply uncoiled and laid along the ground to follow the...
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    shows, the Hiroshima firestorm jumped natural firebreaks (river channels), as well as prepared firebreaks. The spread of fire stopped only when it reached...
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    major fire in 1633, but in the Great Fire of 1666, this damage acted as a firebreak and prevented the flames from further damaging the bridge and crossing...
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    of Meireki, which killed 100,000 people, and built extensive roads and firebreaks around the city. He established a meyasubako (目安箱, complaints box) to...
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    2020 www.bbc.co.uk, accessed 1 November 2020 "Covid: Wales to go into 'firebreak' lockdown from Friday". BBC News. 19 October 2020. Retrieved 20 October...
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    attempted to contain the inferno by dynamiting blocks of buildings to create firebreaks. More than three-quarters of the city lay in ruins, including almost all...
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    Conservation Corps built an 800 mile long firebreak called Ponderosa Way during the Great Depression. This firebreak runs through part of Oregon and California...
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    to be applied to fuel beds around homes and outbuildings to create a firebreak in the fuels leading up to each structure. Ember Bloc is another consumer-based...
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    natural ventilation system for the entire building, even though required firebreaks on every sixth floor interrupt the "chimney". The shafts create a giant...
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    report considered attempting to stop the spread of fires by creating firebreaks by blasting combustible material out of an area, possibly even using nuclear...
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    beaver dams are present. Finally, beaver ponds may serve as critical firebreaks in fire-prone areas. In the 1930s, the U.S. government put 600 beavers...
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    untrained in the use of dynamite, attempted to demolish buildings to create firebreaks. The dynamited buildings often caught fire. The city's fire chief, Dennis...
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    retired from the House of Commons in 2001. He said that he wanted a "firebreak from politics" and to focus on writing and his business, sporting and...
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    flames from entering. Around 20 buildings were destroyed to create a firebreak, but this did little to inhibit the westward spread of the flames. John...
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    roof (with solid spandrels) it has the advantage of providing a partial firebreak. It was first used in Roman Syria, during the 2nd century AD. Wikimedia...
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  • (2002) Cheyenne Raiders (2002) Day of Confession (2002) Deadly Edge (2002) Firebreak (2002) The Good German (2002) Heaven and Hell (2002) The Jugger (2002)...
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    grass, and leaves in the area surrounding the nest so it resembles a firebreak as wide as their neck can reach. The incubation period is 29–43 days....
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    in activities such as tree felling, limbing, bucking, pruning, cutting firebreaks in wildland fire suppression, harvesting of firewood, for use in chainsaw...
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    (west compound) flanked by Nishinomaru-shita (outer section) and Fukiage (firebreak compound); and the Kitanomaru (north compound). The different wards were...
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    increasingly important. Aviation operations in Anchorage commenced along the firebreak south of town (today's Delaney Park Strip), which residents also used...
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    an area that had previously thoroughly burned would act as a natural firebreak.: 147  All along the river, however, were lumber yards, warehouses, and...
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