Word: blaze
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...upper 90s for days, and the park rangers kept an anxious eye on the tinder-dry brush. Late one afternoon, they saw the smoke they feared. (As he confessed later, an unemployed 26-year-old who wanted to raise some cash as a fire fighter had got a blaze going.) In a matter of minutes, a crackling patch of flame was eating through the chaparral...
...Tribes Mission "boot camp" at Fouts Springs, 15 miles to the south. It was frantic, sweaty work, but in a few hours the wind was dropping, and the fire seemed to be sealed off and under control. Then a spark jumped the fire lines and set off a spot blaze in Grindstone Canyon, a short distance away...
Sullivan, who has campaigned against parking congestion between Mount Auburn St. and Memorial Drive for two years, said that fire engines going to the Winthrop House blaze on Saturday night were not able to get through...
Most of the fire engines in Cambridge went racing to Winthrop House Saturday night to fight a blaze which destroyed a room in F-entry...
Firemen succeeded in confining the blaze to one of the four rooms shared by the three students. Two windows were blown out and several articles of furniture were destroyed in the fire. The fire was extinguished...