Crews cut down trees and cleared away brush to provide a fire break.

Plus, the lakes and mountains look like a very good fire break if it tried to move north or east.

"What we really need are very large areas of primary forest that effectively serve as fire breaks," he says.

The fire break created by the rail line also preserved the Hintonburg area.

And when Patrick said that he was clearing a fire break she told him he wasn't.

He himself has built a stone walkway around his house, which serves as a fire break.

"We can always count on I-95 as a fire break," he said.

And the only way to approach White Hill was from the north or south - where the pipeline followed the fire break.

It is 5 percent contained by a fire break.

They have to start tearing down houses to make fire breaks, or we'll lose the whole city.