a metal screen before an open fire for protection (especially against flying sparks)
A fireguard is a screen made of strong wire that you put round a fire so that people cannot accidentally burn themselves. a large wire or metal screen that is put in front of a fireplace to protect people American Equivalent: firescreen
a strategically planned barrier, either manually or mechanically constructed, intended to stop a fire or retard its rate of spread and from which suppression action is carried out to control a fire; the constructed portion of a control line
a narrow field that has been cleared to check the spread of a prairie fire or forest fire