brush fire

noun

Definition of brush firenext
as in forest fire

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Recent Examples of brush fire The warnings come as a brush fire — the Ridge fire — temporarily forced a closure of the Grapevine section of the 5 Freeway on Friday evening and triggered an evacuation order in the Gorman area. — Los Angeles Times, 8 Aug. 2026 Frohnmayer was brought in by the Bush Administration to keep what was still a small brush fire from reaching the White House. — Louis Menand, New Yorker, 13 July 2026 On Tuesday, a police helicopter was hit by a drone while battling a brush fire near the Encino Reservoir in Los Angeles. — Sydney Brammer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 July 2026 Evacuations have been issued amid an approximately 1,600-acre brush fire that has crossed into the Angeles National Forest in Southern California, officials said on Friday, July 10. — Paris Barraza, USA Today, 10 July 2026 See All Example Sentences for brush fire
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forest fire
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  • Similarly, a major firefighting operation was underway in southwest Germany near the village of Traisen, where the heat sparked a forest fire in an area that also contained unexploded ordnance.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 28 June 2026
  • This Anglican example near Beaufort, South Carolina, was built in the 1740s, but was largely destroyed by a forest fire in 1886.
    — Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 17 June 2026
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