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...Greater Bostons for the first time in five years, pipping MIT to the post by eight shots, and then in Portland, Maine in the Spring New Englands, Luis finally burst forth in a blaze of birdies...
...aboard the Russian space station Mir, Linenger was relaxing one evening when an alarm rang in the astronomy module. Rushing to the little lab, he found a cosmonaut swatting at a blaze erupting from an air canister. Linenger and his crewmates hurried to help, but the feeble fire extinguishers they carried were no match for the oxygen-fed flames. Ordinarily if things got out of hand, the crew could evacuate in a Soyuz capsule docked outside. But this time the fire blocked their path. Fortunately, the flames exhausted themselves before it became necessary to abandon ship, and the crisis passed...
...undergraduate has most of her room wiped out in a fire. Miraculously, her Macintosh escaped without damage, but the blaze destroyed a decade's writing. If the computer had been damaged, some of her documents would have been irretrievable...
MINA, Saudi Arabia: At least 180 Muslim pilgrims died when a tent city outside Mecca burst into flame. Witnesses said the fire started shortly before noon, possibly caused by the explosion of a gas cylinder used for cooking. High winds coupled with 104-degree heat caused the blaze to spread quickly among some 70,000 wood-and-canvas tents. Firefighters needed several hours to contain the blaze. As often happens in catastrophic fires, the majority of the casualties were victims of the side-effects of the blaze, in this case the stampede that broke out as the flames spread...
Jeff M. Glickman, a passerby who witnessed the fire, said, "The fire progressed very quickly from a small sparkling light to a blaze...