Word: blaze
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...Warner Bros, lot in Burbank one day last week, actors, stagehands and other employees were eating lunch when they heard the shriek of fire sirens. Rushing from the studio commissary, they could see a wind-whipped blaze spreading from an outdoor reproduction of a Manhattan street. As the fire leaped, it engulfed Studio 21, Warner's biggest sound stage (120 ft. wide, 320 ft. long, seven stories high...
...Vice President Jack Warner dashed about like real-life heroes, saving whatever they could from the burning shed. In three hours it was all over. The fire (cause undetermined) had destroyed $1,500,000 in buildings and equipment over an area of eight acres. It was the biggest studio blaze in Hollywood's history...
Cause of the fire is as yet undetermined. Although it is thought that a short circuit may have been the origin of the blaze, the Massachusetts Fire Marshall's Office is investigating the situation...
...first alarm brought six fire trucks roaring down Cambridge's streets. Crowds of students watched the battling firemen confine the flames to one room. Although the blaze could not escape the room in which it started, smoke oozed under doors and through windows and caused serious damage to other rooms. The fire brought no damage to nearby buildings...
...dash to Chicago and a huge fire in the grain elevators kept the action moving. The fire swung from beam to beam, as its roar came through the loud speaker. Tiny firemen hurled huge geysers of water, in a futile attempt to stop the blaze...