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Max Fire
/mæks ˈfaɪər/
Definition
1
A formal designation often assigned by emergency services to specific active wildfires to track their containment, growth, and incident data.
2
A colloquial reference to a localized wildfire event, typically used in news reports to identify a specific breakout in a region like Los Angeles or Fresno.
Examples
The local news spent all afternoon tracking the movement of the Max Fire near the hiking trails.
I told the kids we couldn't go for a walk because the Max Fire had decided to make a rather uninvited appearance in the neighborhood.
Naming a wildfire the Max Fire sounds suspiciously like a developer trying to maximize the drama of a Sunday afternoon in California.