BRIEFLY.Byline: The Register-Guard Firefighters contain fire on BLM BLM n abbr (US) (= Bureau of Land Management) → les domaines land near Lorane Fire crews were mopping up The liquidation of remnants of enemy resistance in an area that has been surrounded or isolated, or through which other units have passed without eliminating all active resistance. a 56-acre fire Saturday that burned on Bureau of Land Management and Rosboro Lumber Co. land four miles west of Lorane. The cause of the fire, which was reported Thursday afternoon, has not been determined, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Link Smith, unit forester for the Western Lane District of the Oregon Department of Forestry. Smith said a crew of 125 worked hard to contain the fire in steep terrain under windy conditions. Half of the fire was in old-growth. No one was injured in·jure tr.v. in·jured, in·jur·ing, in·jures 1. To cause physical harm to; hurt. 2. To cause damage to; impair. 3. in the effort. "We'll be continuing to work on it ... patrolling it, probably for weeks," Smith said. |
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