line cut
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Fires that are smaller than 5 acres, the policy states, should include a line cut by hand or with a bulldozer around the entire perimeter, and 100% mop-up where crews extinguish remaining hot spots and smoldering material within the fire’s control lines using water and foam.
From Los Angeles Times
Fires that are smaller than five acres, the policy states, should include a line cut by hand or with a bulldozer around the entire perimeter, and 100% mop-up where crews extinguish remaining hot spots and smoldering material within the fire’s control lines using water and foam.
From Los Angeles Times
Before Khader's phone line cut off, he also said that armoured bulldozers had been brought in.
From BBC
On Sept. 26, 1894, the Ironton was being pulled by the Charles J. Kershaw steamer ship around 12:30 a.m. when it had its tow line cut after the steamer’s engine failed.
From Washington Times
From that moment on, the film becomes a fairly predictable game of cat and mouse, with Luther’s cat — implausibly sprung from prison in short order — in hot pursuit of the mouse, whom Serkis portrays as if he were racing through the film on a Lime scooter with the brake line cut, and wearing a fluorescent orange vest.
From Washington Post
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