There are three fires still out of control outside of Coimbra and then another eight fires or so in the central area.
Thin streams of white smoke fall out of the clear sky onto pastoral farmland, where small fires then dot the landscape and create smoke that blankets the area.
These long strings cascade through the pathways burned into the silicon until they find a match, and then the HotShot fires out a simplified instruction to the microprocessor.
Mr. TERRY PEACH (Agriculture Secretary, Oklahoma): We actually had a pretty good spring as far as hay production, but as this drought continues and then as the tremendous fires over the entire state have not only burned up pastures that our ranchers have now, it's burned up much of our hay piles that farmers had stored for their winter hay needs for their cattle operation.
"The starter's pistol fires, and then you just hear the chop-chop-chop of people rowing as fast as they can to get to the good spots, " Yera says.
This technique, starving fires of oxygen and then instantly capping the well with mud and cement, remained his favourite.
We saw it here in Colorado with the fires this summer, and then the terrible tragedy in Aurora.
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For the next six hours Parker fires off e-mails, then turns to his private Facebook page.
Since then, firefighters are responding to fewer forest fires and letting more acres burn.
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When drought caused fires in the Amazon jungle, and then devastated crops and cattle in the poor north-east, Mr Cardoso and his team seemed slow to react.
If the adrenalin response continues to fire off too regularly, then the body manufactures more, and eventually the mechanism fires off unexpectedly, which incidentally explains how people can have panic attacks at 2am in the morning when they should be asleep.
If that person closes his or her eyes and then re-imagines the house, nearly the same pattern fires.
Then analysts began looking at several previously unexamined sources of data about fires across the city, and a pattern emerged.
After two fires on board cruise ships in the 1990s, the then-chairman of the National Transportation Safety Board said the cruise industry needed to do more in the way of training and fire prevention.
Then on July 19, Greece's national fire service reported over 100 fires, including one at an army base just outside Athens on a 106-degree day.
The camera fires off still images at intervals depending upon the speed of the vehicle, then custom software blurs faces and stitches all of them together into an ever-advancing 360-degree panorama.
Since then, the department has seen its performance drop markedly, so that it is getting to fires in time just about 60% of the time.
Then there is no electricity - very few villagers can afford to rent a line from a creaky generator which fires up once a day.
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