Indeed, the National Weather Service issued rarely used extreme red flag warnings, signaling severe fire danger over wide stretches of the state.

没错。国家气象局发布了很少使用的红旗警告，该警告仅在极端情况下使用——表明该州在很大范围内有很严重的火灾危险。

The forests and marshes had given way to wide stretches of dry, open prairie.

森林和沼泽已经让位于大片干燥开阔的草原。

M. Bex pushed his way through these and we found ourselves on a wide stretch of open downs.

M. Bex 冲破了这些障碍， 我们发现自己处于广阔的开阔地带。

There was no island there, nothing but a wide stretch of waters on both sides of me, and the moon almost directly overhead.

那里没有岛屿， 只有我两侧的一大片水域， 月亮几乎就在头顶上方。