Fury of Fire

Stephen Y.
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  1. grueling
    characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion
    Fighting a wildfire is grueling work.
  2. extinguish
    put out, as of fires, flames, or lights
    In the end, it took more than 14,000 firefighters to extinguish the fires.
  3. treacherous
    dangerously unstable and unpredictable
    Wildfires are treacherous.
  4. rugged
    having long narrow shallow depressions in the surface
    Some days we hike up to 3 hours through rugged terrain to get to the fires, work 13 hours doing intense physical labor, and then hike another 3 hours to get back.
Created on Sun Dec 04 19:32:33 EST 2011

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