Word: blaze
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Presented in Adams House's sumptuous Upper Common Room to a crowd of about thirty people, the two plays offer a true feast for the senses, complete with sixteenth century nudes and Disneyesque costumes. At last Friday's performace, a crackling blaze in the fireplace seemed at first a lovely addition to the baroque set, but gradually overwhelmed the audience with a steady stream of smoke that filled the room...
SHEREE WILLIAMS AND HER HUSBAND LEROY LYONS came home to a scene of unimaginable horror. While they were away for 45 minutes, all seven of their children, left unattended, had perished in a swift, smoky blaze that gutted their two-story house on Detroit's east side. Iron burglar bars on the windows had prevented the youngsters, ranging in age from seven months to nine years, from escaping. In New York City two children, ages seven and five, died when a fire broke out in the basement of an unlicensed day-care center whose owner had stepped...
...Fortunately, most of the escaping oil quickly burned off or evaporated, calming fears of environmental damage to fishing waters and the coasts of the Indonesian island of Sumatra. By week's end emergency workers had secured the drifting 260,000-ton ship to a tug and had brought the blaze under partial control. It was the third major tanker accident in as many weeks...
...took 65 fire fighters, 16 firetrucks and almost two hours to control the blaze, which was apparently caused by an electric heater, said fire department Deputy Chief Gerald R. Reardon...
...been critical of his handling of the aftermath of the war, starting on the final day of the war. I said in my speech a couple of weeks ago that he deserves credit for calling the fire department, but we should understand it was he who started the blaze. Once the fire has started, you don't say, Wait a minute, we shouldn't put it out because this fire shouldn't have been set in the first place. I would cast that vote all over again. I started making speeches against his Iraq policy back in 1988. I think...