Word: extinguishes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...There is no concrete evidence about how the fire started," Murphy said. "We got a call from Uncle Bunny's, and then there were two additional alarms. If a fire is in the basement it is difficult to extinguish because of the construction...
...power at the Central Square, Kendall Square and Charles St. T stops was shut down, and the fire department came to extinguish the fire...
Comparing saying "no" to sex with asking a smoker to extinguish a cigarette, Parrot noted that passivity is commonplace in all social situations...
...violence erupted when youths from the Lozells Road area, described by police as a drug-trafficking center, confronted officers about to ticket a black motorist and then turned on firemen who were trying to extinguish a blaze in a bingo hall. By the time police reinforcements arrived, 300 to 400 youths were looting and burning neighborhood shops, many of them owned by Asian immigrants...
...hikers apparently tried to extinguish the fire themselves before being boated to safety across Lake Chelan, where a Forest Service official in a guardhouse had spotted the smoke. "I imagine it was tense for [the hikers], but they probably didn't have much of a chance," Ames said...