* 1993 – The 51-day siege of the Branch Davidian building outside Waco, Texas, USA, ends when a fire breaks out.

Fire breaks out and spreads in downtown Grand Forks, but high water levels hamper efforts to reach the fire, leading to the destruction of 11 buildings.

* 1990 – A fire breaks out on the passenger ferry M / S Scandinavian Star, killing 158 people.

* 1943 – A fire breaks out at St. Joseph's Orphanage, County Cavan, Ireland, killing 36 people ( 35 of whom are children ).

Eventually, Hector breaks Ajax ' spear with his sword, forcing him to give ground, and he sets the ship on fire.

While tied to its pier in Polyarny, the Soviet submarine B-37 is destroyed when fire breaks out in its torpedo compartent.

However, an accidental fire breaks out in Luthor's lab.

* 1992 – In England, a fire breaks out in Windsor Castle, badly damaging the castle and causing over £ 50 million worth of damage.

* 1980 – A deadly fire breaks out at the MGM Grand Hotel in Paradise, Nevada ( now Bally's Las Vegas ).

** A fire breaks out in the Bannerman's Castle in the Hudson River ; most of the roof collapses and crashes down to the lower levels.

* July 24 – A great oil fire breaks out in the harbor of Naantali, Finland.

* July 9 – A forest fire breaks out in the Tillamook Burn ( the third in that area since 1933 ).

* November 20 – In England, a fire breaks out in Windsor Castle, causing over £ 50 million worth of damage.

* September 3 – In Hamlet, North Carolina, a grease fire breaks out at the Imperial Foods chicken processing plant, killing 25 people.

** Apollo 1: U. S. astronauts Gus Grissom, Edward Higgins White, and Roger Chaffee are killed when fire breaks out in their Apollo spacecraft during a launch pad test.

* June 9, 1811 – The Great fire of the Podil breaks out in Kiev, Ukraine.

* January 5 – A great fire breaks out in Eindhoven, Netherlands.

* In the Tang Dynasty Chinese capital of Chang ' an, a large fire consumes 4, 000 homes, warehouses, and other buildings in the East Market, yet the rest of the city is at a safe distance from the blaze ( which is largely quarantined in East Central Chang ' an thanks to the large width of roads in Chang ' an that produce fire breaks ).

* A fire breaks out in Rome.

* June 9 – The Great fire of the Podil breaks out in Kiev, Ukraine.

* September 2 – Great Fire of London: A large fire breaks out in London in the house of Charles II's baker on Pudding Lane near London Bridge.

* A major fire breaks out in Dresden.

* April 15 – A fire breaks out in the Song Chinese capital city of Hangzhou, raging for 4 days and nights, destroying 58, 097 houses over an area of more than 3 miles, killing 59 people, and an unrecorded amount of other people who are trampled while attempting to flee.

* April 9 – After a bizarre weather phenomena of yellowish clouds and dust chokes the air around Hangzhou, Song Dynasty, China, obscuring the sky and sun, a fire breaks out at night in the southeast of the city, which continues into the next day.

This time Lewis had his own rifle in his hands, and he threw some answering fire back at the mysterious far-off shot, then spent most of the day searching out the area.

The husband points the steps out with his flashlight: `` Its white stare filling her pale eyes To the blind brim with appetite, Bleaching her hands that grazed my thighs And sent us from the table in surprise To let the dishes soak all night, '' ( Mary Jane asked herself if Meredith was blushing at this line, or was it the fire??

Any posse riding down the street to demand Blue Throat's surrender would be wiped out with one deadly burst of fire.

Little enough joy was afforded Wright in the spring of 1925, when another destructive fire broke out at Taliesin.

The whistle of Sherman's locomotives often drowned out the rattle of the skirmish fire.

Around that statue in the green park where children play and lovers walk in twos and there is a glowing view of the whole city, in that park are the rows of marble busts of Garibaldi's fallen men, the ones who one day rushed out of the Porta San Pancrazio and, under fire all the way, up the long, straight narrow lane to take, then lose the high ground of the Villa Doria Pamphili.

The present attempts of the politicians to contaminate ordinary Britons shows that this British common sense is unwilling to pull somebody else's chestnuts out of the fire by new military adventures ''.

A fire had just been lighted, he saw, and things had been set out for drinks, and, like any stray, his response to these comforts was instantaneous.

Find out whether fire protection, sewage system, gas, water mains, and electrical lines are available in the locality.

The candle had been stuck on a tin lid so it wouldn't set fire to the crate when it guttered out.

Low seems to have supported Eden at first and then relented because things worked out differently, so there is no fire in his eye.

At the same time that I thought I understood her at long last and pitied her, underneath this knowing had there burned unquenched by my pity a fire of hate, an enduring envy that burst out in that ghastly outcry??

* 1936 – A fire wipes out Kursha-2 in the Meshchera Lowlands, Ryazan Oblast, Russia, killing 1, 200 and leaving only 20 survivors.

The city was destroyed partially — and in some parts completely — during the fighting, mostly by American artillery fire and demolitions carried out by the Waffen-SS defenders.

In keeping with the prevailing view of celestial bodies as balls of fire in the sky, Anaximenes proposed that the earth let out an exhalation of air that rarefied, ignited and became the stars.

Modern experiments have tested claims that Archimedes designed machines capable of lifting attacking ships out of the water and setting ships on fire using an array of mirrors.

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He gets out of cover and takes aim on the flamethrower but misses, and gets hit by enemy fire.

On May 11, 1919, an extensive fire broke out on Cardiff Street, Aberdare.

The line entered the pop-consciousness with Game Two of the 1977 World Series, when a fire broke out near Yankee Stadium as the team was playing the Los Angeles Dodgers.

Numerous fires had previously broken out in the Bronx prior to this fire.

" The men were so crowded in upon one another ", wrote Mérode-Westerloo, " that they couldn ’ t even fire – let alone receive or carry out any orders.