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.

Firebreaks can serve multiple purposes related to the safe use of prescribed fire and can provide additional food and cover for wildlife. The main purpose of firebreaks is to stop the fire from ...

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.

BARNEGAT TOWNSHIP, N.J. (AP) — Some New Jersey residents are expressing concerns about a proposed change they fear could hamper creation of firebreaks in the New Jersey Pinelands. The ...

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 ...

According to fire officials, crews were able to access the fire through recently maintained firebreaks and quickly extinguished it to less than a 10th of an acre.

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 ...

As the Flagstaff Fire threatened to crest the ridge and burn toward several south Boulder neighborhoods last week, crews built firebreaks through the open space between the homes and the mountain.

He said there are “literally thousands of miles of firebreaks in the Pinelands” — most of them more than 6 feet wide, and the proposed amendment would require a permit for nearly all of them.