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    A firebreak or double track (also called a fire line, fuel break, fireroad and firetrail in Australia) is a gap in vegetation or other combustible material...
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  • with World Championship Wrestling from 1991 to 1992 under the ring name Firebreaker Chip. Curtis Thompson started wrestling in 1987 in NWA. Subsequently...
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  • The Firebreak Stakes, is a horse race, for horses aged four and over, run over a distance of 1,600 metres (one mile) on dirt in February at Meydan Racecourse...
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    An oxygen firebreak, also known as a fire stop valve or fire safety valve, is a thermal fuse designed to extinguish a fire in the delivery tube being...
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    bootlegs and mashups through their SoundCloud page, Confidence Man released "Firebreak", an instrumental house single that they had been performing at shows...
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    use of the major firefighting technique of the time, the creation of firebreaks by means of removing structures in the fire's path, was critically delayed...
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    and non-essential shops would be closed during that period. After the firebreak, rules were standardised across Wales with localised restrictions abolished...
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    material. Some forms of graphite are used for thermal insulation (i.e. firebreaks and heat shields), but some other forms are good thermal conductors. Diamond...
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    city officials had ordered buildings torn down to create long, straight firebreaks. These continued to be expanded and extended up to the morning of 6 August...
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    attempted to contain the inferno by dynamiting blocks of buildings to create firebreaks. More than three-quarters of the city lay in ruins, including almost all...
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