What is "brush fire"

Usage examples of "brush fire".

The brush fire had swept through here hours before, and the spicy smell of moss ash was thick around them.

You didn't know enough to put out a brush fire in a park, let alone a shop.

Something stirred and I jumped back and looked up and saw a curious cat looking down at me from a corner of the roof, and then there was a sudden outburst of sounds, wheels rattling, horses' hooves pounding like a bamboo grove exploding in a brush fire, and I had to leap out of the way to avoid being crushed as a black carriage pulled by a team of four horses raced into the courtyard from the stables.

Before that he'd been to California helping search for a family out hiking caught in a brush fire.

He went out of the tent and looked down at Ma, crouched over the brush fire.

The idiots built campfires when I told 'em not to, and got the brush fire started.

Just like Lassie or some other ridiculous TV animal, it was trying to tell him something, to lead him to where the wounded forest ranger had fallen, where the nest of baby ducks was being threatened by the brush fire.

Words formed in the air like clouds chased by a following wind, like vapor steaming on a dewy morning, like smoke from a brush fire.

There was a sunny area down the road where a brush fire had cleared several acres of land around the trail that led southwest.