Word: blazes
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...reminder of its heavy-metal past. Sets of "gerbs"--sparking pyrotechnic fountains--shot up from the stage as the band kicked into its first song, Desert Moon. Within seconds, flames crawled up the foam-covered wall behind the band and spread to the 9-ft.-high ceiling. Thinking the blaze was part of the band's act, a few fans let out cheers...
Investigators will also want to determine whether the club had instituted proper safeguards in the event of a fire. Survivors of the West Warwick blaze say nearly the entire crowd tried to escape through the front door of the club, in part because the Station's three other emergency exits were obscured by the thick black smoke. How many people could have made it out in time by exiting through another door will never be known. The intensity of the conflagration was staggering; witnesses say the building was entirely ablaze three minutes after the fire started. When rescuers arrived...
Growing up, Harvard was an almost constant presence in Simmons’ life. Her home in Belmont lies just five miles outside Harvard Square, and she spent her formative years watching her two older sisters blaze their ways through the College. Her father, who graduated in 1961, is an orthopedic surgeon who works at University Health Services on a regular basis. Simmons has memories of standing on the sidelines of football games while her father worked as a trainer. She’s missed one Harvard-Yale game in her life...
...looks right at home. Despite a distinguished lineage—his grandfather, Robert G. Stone Jr. ’47, served on the Harvard Corporation for 27 years and was its Senior Fellow from 1995 through 2002—Fitzgerald has always felt free to blaze his own path...
...though, the Minsk Club is all about the rallies, where aficionados ride out to the countryside to roast pigs and swap stories. It was at a recent gathering that enthusiasts sacrificed a reviled Honda Dream to the god of Minsk. Of course, the Dream thrown into the pig-roast blaze was a miniature paper model used in Vietnamese funeral ceremonies, not a full-size scooter. Then again, with devotion like this, it's hard to put anything past these true believers...