fire-front

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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the point of farthest advance of a forest fire, where the firefighters work.

Quotations

1953

By noon the wind was blowing steadily from the south-west and the fire front was less than a mile from Paradise Lake.

1958

. . . suddenly McGilvary pointed through the smoke towards the fire front.