Word: blazing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Housing ranges from precarious, blaze-prone clapboards to cavernous high-rises...
...fire departments, good equipment, personnel and response time are the best indicators of a quick "knock-down," firefighter lingo for quieting a blaze...
...Materials: Steel frame, fire resistant plywood and fire protection system (the original tower burned down in a 1956 blaze), polychrome slate (fading green, red and black), copper finials and the piece de la resistance of four corner brick and stone precipices...
...fire ?- had been reversed, and Reno was certainly right. But there is more than credibility at stake. When Reno?s internal investigation is completed, the likely finding will be that Coulson was right ?- the two forgotten devices were fired, and bounced away harmlessly six hours before the blaze erupted. The mainstream press, well accustomed to the big and small incompetencies of the Washington bureaucracies, will likely believe it. A significant slice of the republic will not. And some of them ?- self-styled neo-minutemen with a serious beef against King Sam and the arsenal to back it up ?- may well...
...News. The message: Contrary to six years of official denials, agents on the scene actually did fire tear gas canisters into the compound, canisters that burn hot and could have set something ablaze. Except that they didn?t cause the conflagration, says Coulson ?- they were fired hours before the blaze started and couldn?t have been responsible. Guess what? Admission/denials like that don?t satisfy anyone (just ask George W. Bush), and the Waco conspiracy-theory factory, long dormant, was up and running again. TIME Justice correspondent Elaine Shannon says she has no reason to believe that the new version...