Catchword: snag

Filed under: English, Environment, Firefighting

Part of speech: n.

Quotation: The burn had consumed four acres when Holmes and a few other team members approached a tree known in forestry parlance as a “snag”—dead or dying timber that poses a threat of falling.

Article or document title:
“Firefighter Crushed to Death as Part of Tree Topples” (URL)

Author:
Eric Bailey

Article, document, publication, web site:
Los Angeles Times

Dateline:
Sacramento, Calif.

Date of publication:
Oct. 5, 2004

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