Word: blaze
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...fire-seeking trail is generally a wood-shed or a chicken-house which some urchin has se alight. Fair heroines are scarce; and tall sky-scrapers refuse to burn except at uncertain intervals. Yet there is always hope of some great catastrophe, a second Chicago or Baltimore blaze; or perhaps even such a scene as the movies show on red films, while the orchestra pounds the bass...
...blaze worked up, not spreading until it reached the top floor. The south-western corner of the building was untouched. The fire was discovered by Arthur Badger, of Quincy, who was visiting there. The damage is estimated at approximately $6,000. It was found necessary to cut away part of the walls and ceilings of the lower floors to get at the sections where the fire travelled up to the attic...
...They blaze the path for the many...
...senior members of the camp, for the 70-foot yacht "Needle" was brought into play to transport the 1919 men to the other end of Fisher's Island. They also spent the day there, and on the way home assisted in extinguishing a slight blaze on the launch "Raccoon" which was in danger of being destroyed. Red Top also furnishes training for firemen...
...small fire in one of the Physics 3 laboratory rooms of the Jefferson Physical Laboratory startled members of the staff shortly after 1 o'clock yesterday afternoon. An alarm was sounded, but the staff managed practically to extinguish the blaze before the arrival of the apparatus. The fire started as the result of a closed switch left by a negligent student Tuesday night. The switch was under a wooden box and when an unusually strong current was passed through the system yesterday morning the box overheated and ignited...