Packing up, and heading for safety.
That's what residents in Nevada County, California are doing, after a fast-moving wildfire broke out Saturday afternoon.
The fire was first spotted about 60 miles northeast of Sacramento.
Within hours, it had spread over more than 4-thousand acres.
And residents were grabbing all the things most precious to them, and leaving.
(SOT WITH UNIDENTIFIED BOY)
"Two turtles, cat, two dogs and a bearded dragon."
(SOT WITH RESIDENT LAURA FELLOWS)
"First thing I grabbed was my kids' social security cards and birth certificates."
The blaze broke out as officials were already fighting wildfires in other parts of the state.
But this one has proven especially difficult, since it broke out in a remote area.
(SOT SEAN GRIFFINS, CALFIRE)
"You really have no way of getting to it. A lot of the time spent is waiting for the dozers to build us roads in."
Experts expect to see more, and larger fires, than usual this year, as the state struggles through a fourth straight year of drought.
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Vocabulary (bạn nên đọc và hiểu nghĩa tiếng Anh để nhớ từ lâu, khi cần biết nghĩa tiếng Việt, bấm vào đây):
wildfire (n) |
/ˈwaɪld.faɪər/ |
a fire that is burning strongly and out of control on an area of grass or bushes in the countryside |
grab (v) | /ɡræb/ | to take hold of something or someone suddenly and roughly: |
blaze (n) | /bleɪz/ | a large, strong fire |
dozer (n) | ˈdōzər/ | short for bulldozer: A heavy vehicle with a large blade in front, used for pushing earth and stones away and for making areas of ground flat at the same time |
Phrasal verb:
- to pack up: to prepare one's belongings to be transported by placing them into a container; to gather one's things together for one's departure - đóng gói đồ đạc để vận chuyển đi.
- to break out: (of war, fighting, or similarly undesirable things) start suddenly - một sự kiện, sự cố gì đó (chiến tranh, trận chiến, hay bất cứ thứ gì không mong muốn) bất ngờ xảy ra.
- to get to sth: to reach (a goal or objective) = arrive at, attain, come to, gain - tiếp cận với cái gì hoặc mục tiêu gì.
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