burnable

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Brian K. Rice, president of the California Professional Firefighters union, also expressed dismay, noting that nearly half of the state is federal land, including “some of the wildest, most burnable areas of our state.”

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 14, 2025

Question marks dot the landscape of burnable bushes and pushable boulders, with entire regions left unrevealed.

From New York Times • May 13, 2023

“Use good judgment and don’t light a fire close to burnable vegetation or overhanging branches,” Starkovich said.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 12, 2022

A statistically significant decline in such nights happened in 59% of burnable lands worldwide.

From Science Magazine • Feb. 16, 2022

We all kept up great fires throughout our stay, burning all the burnable things we could find, without the smallest consideration for our successors, leaving it to our 15,000 long-haired oxen to supply the deficit.

From Travels in Tartary, Thibet, and China During the years 1844-5-6 Volume 2 by Huc, Évariste Régis