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The article doesn't really establish a point of reference. 7% contained sounds low, but I have no clue what a normal amount of containment is.
by tengbretson 5y ago
The article doesn't really establish a point of reference. 7% contained sounds low, but I have no clue what a normal amount of containment is.
- drivers99 5y agoIt refers to the amount of the perimeter that the fire (probably) can't cross. https://www.npr.org/2017/12/21/572305828/what-does-containing-a-fire-really-mean https://www.npr.org/2017/12/21/572305828/what-does-containin... > That means that [x] percent of the fire is surrounded by containment lines — any physical barrier that stops the fire from passing a certain point. Those lines can be trenches, natural barriers like rivers, or even already-burned patches of land. Most often, the containment line is a shallow, 10- to 12-feet wide trench firefighters dig into the dirt.
- zie 5y agoIt normally starts off very small like this 7%, they have to get a beach-head as it were and get SOME boundaries set up, then it's just a matter of extending that boundary, such that it can't grow anymore and then it mostly puts itself out. That's the very high level, skipping loads of important details overview of how they tend to fight fires.