Word: blazingly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...even as the Soviets were proclaiming their success, reports were swirling in Moscow that the undertaking had suffered a setback. A fire at a compressor station in Urengoi, Siberia, was said to have damaged essential equipment. The Kremlin confirmed last week that the blaze had broken out on Dec. 15 in a pile of boxes lying on the floor of the station. The flames destroyed important electronic monitoring devices and control panels, but no one was injured. The Soviets denied that the accident would keep the pipeline from completion in June. Said Vasili Dinkov. Soviet Minister of the Gas Industry...
...evening in one of those wonderful old Victorian inns in Vermont. The innkeeper was bearded, avuncular, inquisitive, fleshy, and given now and again to alcohol and nicotine. His wife sometimes fretted that he might be a heart in search of an attack. There was a cheery blaze in the fireplace...
...engulfed the basement dance hall, trapping many people in the cloakroom. Others suffocated or were crushed to death as they stampeded up the stairs through thick clouds of smoke toward exits that had been blocked to prevent more people from entering. The police could not immediately determine how the blaze had started. At least 78 people were killed and 25 injured. Said a Spanish newsman, who was among the first to view the horror: "I have only recently returned from Lebanon. Even there I saw nothing like this...
...blaze started at around 6 p.m. when the residents of Winthrop B-11 left several religious candles used to celebrate the Hanukah holiday burning on the mantle while they went to dinner, said resident Linda M. Lau '86 yesterday. She added that when she and entry mate Geraldine Robin '86 returned about an hour later, thick black smoke was pouring from the room...
Three workers were severely burned yesterday when a fire broke out at a Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) construction site in Kendelt Square. The blaze did not disrupt services, but caused delays of up to 15 minutes...