Containment happens when barriers, known as firebreaks, get in the way of a fire’s forward momentum. Sometimes those barriers are natural, like rivers or terrain without burnable fuel.

What do those containment percentages in daily fire updates mean, ... Control lines are constructed or natural barriers used to stop a wildfire from spreading, also called firebreaks or fuel breaks.

What do those containment percentages in daily fire updates mean, ... Control lines are constructed or natural barriers used to stop a wildfire from spreading, also called firebreaks or fuel breaks.

So, why did she write to “encourage firebreaks” instead of simply having Maui County Council require them by ordinance? Who in the county administration wanted her to word it like that?

A proposed project by the state Department of Land and Natural Resources would expand firebreaks on Maunakea in order to protect an endangered bird. The palila, or Hawaiian honeycreeper, only ...

Fire Service and municipal crews dug firebreaks outside evacuated villages on the Greek island of Lesbos halting a wildfire that had threatened scores of homes, authorities said Via AP news wire ...

Hawaii maintains a network of firebreaks to keep wildfire from spreading, but that system includes hundreds of miles of gaps that need to be filled to protect communities around the state.

Mechanical grinder quickly creates firebreaks in Oracle Officials: Clearing mimics good effects of natural fires ...

A spokesperson for the City of Yellowknife told CBC News back in September that wood from the firebreaks was not harvested in a "commercial manner" — meaning it was mixed in with dirt and rocks ...

A federal fund announced last fall aimed to help N.W.T communities build firebreaks within eight years. But after last summer's wildfires, some communities are anxious to get the work done as soon ...

Sand firebreaks erected in France’s southwestern Gironde region are helping firefighters contain blazes that have destroyed thousands of hectares of pine forests.