Word: blazing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Twenty-two families were displaced by the blaze, and Lin, a member of the Harvard-Radcliffe Friends of the American Red Cross, was called to offer assistance...
Firefighters contained the blaze within 90 minutes but remained at the scene until past midnight...
...fire is considered the worst to strike Cambridge since February 1995, when 100 families were left homeless when a blaze ravaged Central Square...
...more than 80 injured as flames roared through a downtown high-rise in the worst fire in Hong Kong in 39 years. The fire which began Wednesday burned for 21 hours before being brought under control by firefighters. The search for victims continues Thursday. Fire department officials say the blaze probably started when welding sparks, used during elevator renovation, ignited combustible material at the bottom of a shaft, causing the fire to spread from the basement to the 13th and 14th floors. For security reasons, the 21-year-old building had sealed windows both at the front and the rear...
Hawkes said the effect of the short circuit was "a ball of fire in the contained area" of the switch, a type of blaze that "usually self-extinguishes pretty quickly...