Thesaurus entry: beacon

Article: WA: Police hope missing tourist lights signal fire
AAP General News (Australia);  August 16, 2001 ;     242 words ... ... Police hope missing tourist lights signal fire A Queensland tourist missing in Western ... and police are hoping he may start a signal fire. Fifty-year-old CLIVE WELLS was ... police are hoping he'll use to light a signal fire. AAP RTV sd/jas KEYWORD: WELLS ...

Article: NSW: Residents with pools urged to signal fire ...
AAP General News (Australia);  December 29, 2001 ;     330 words ... ... News (Australia) 12-29-2001 NSW: Residents with pools urged to signal fire brigade SYDNEY, Dec 29 AAP - Bush residents with swimming pools are being urged to signal fire crews by displaying a coloured cloth at the front of their properties ...

Article: Couple's signal fire brings happy ending to trip ...
Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO);  September 7, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... with sweat and relief, their pants soaked from a river crossing. A search plane from the Civil Air Patrol had spotted their signal fire earlier in the day and seen two people waving from high atop a ridge on the west side of the river, about two miles from ...

Article: Woman says she was lost, desperate when starting signal ...
AP Worldstream;  July 11, 2002 ;     442 words ... ... was rescued by the helicopter June 20, Valinda Elliott told The Associated Press that she couldn' t believe it when the signal fire she started with her lighter became part of the inferno that destroyed at least 467 homes and scorched nearly 469,000 acres ...

Article: Rescuers find missing hikers.(City/Region)(Searchers spot a ...
The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR);  July 27, 2009 ;     686 words ... ... trail, near the Middle Fork/Willamette drainage. Wach and the boy had no food while lost. Wach was able to build a small signal fire to attract the helicopter's attention. "There was a little puff of smoke, which caught the observer's eye," Miller ...

Dictionary definition: beacon
The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable;      300 words ... ... maintenance of a chain of beacons as a warning signal ... England. From this, beacon came to mean a conspicuous ... suitable for the site of a signal fire (frequently occurring ... names, as Brecon Beacons , Dunkery Beacon ). Recorded from Old ...

Article: Signal fire may be 'stupidest act of year'
The Press;  May 17, 2001 ;     317 words ...BLENHEIM -- A couple who lit a fire in the Northbank area of Marlborough destroying a large area of forest, were leading candidates for the award for "stupidest act of the year", Judge John Dalmer said in the Blenheim District Court. Eugene David Hamlyn, 26, and Donna Maree Burdon, 18, were