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Fire Escape Partners
3465 25th Street, Suite 17
San Francisco, CA 94110 | (adjective)
[kahn-TIG-yoo-ahs] 
1. having a common boundary or edge; touching; adjoining: "I didn't mind splitting our party into two tables, but I expected them to be contiguous."
2. (as of angles) adjacent
3. connected together without a break in time or physical space; 'contiguous terms in the Senate'; 'contiguous houses'
adverb form: contiguously
noun form: contiguousness
Origin:
Approximately 1525; from Latin, 'contiguus': touching together, from 'contingere': to have contact with, from 'contig-': to touch. In action:
"The counties are also eligible because they are contiguous to other counties affected by damages and losses suffered from freezing rain and periods of abnormally warm weather, followed by very low temperatures that occurred from Feb. 28, 2003, through July 21, 2003, and heavy rains, hail and winds that overlapped during the period beginning May 7."
"Farm disaster aid available," Ironwood Daily Globe (February 16, 2004).
"Combining the Fort Valley Fire District, Mount Elden Fire District, Lockett Ranch subdivision and all county areas accessed from Highway 180 into one contiguous fire district will provide enough money for the district to form its own fire department, Sachara said.
By having a local fire department, service will be improved in response time and availability to all residents, he added. Also, having its own fire department will mean that money will stay in the community and will establish infrastructure for the area in the event it grows in the future."
Larry Hendricks. "Fort Valley fire debate heats up," Arizona Daily Sun (February 16, 2004).
"Another misconception is that construction of the security fence represents a 'big land grab' by the government of Ariel Sharon that will preclude the possibility of a future contiguous Palestinian state. It isn't, and it won't. The maximum planned route of the fence, most of which follows along the 1967 border, or 'Green Line,' would place just 6 percent of the West Bank -- and only 15,000 of 2.5 million Palestinians -- on the Israeli side.
Nor is the Sharon government the force behind the fence. Support for it began largely as a grassroots initiative in distressed Israeli communities that have been plagued by Palestinian suicide bombers who would slip across Israel's porous border and blow themselves up on packed buses and in crowded cafes."
Bob Horenstein. "Op/Ed: Give Israel's side of 'the fence' a fair hearing," The Oregonian (February 16, 2004).
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