The gun, fitted with a 51 calibre thermal sleeve encased barrel, fires 6 rounds per minute. |
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During his career, he has attended road accidents, air crashes, forest fires and blazing thatched cottages. |
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I made it lighter, and manipulated the chamber, so that it fires twice as fast without losing any control or gaining consequent recoil. |
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Logan admits he sometimes counts on me to entertain him when he fires up his computer at the office early in the morning. |
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No more witches, wizards or warlocks lighted their fires with the flick of a finger. |
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Living with these mementos reconnects us with that moment and fires our memory, and hopefully enriches our lives. |
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Broken buildings surrounded her, their silhouettes illuminated by the fires which danced within them. |
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We know that without these bush fires plants won't germinate and the bush won't flourish. |
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The charity also recommends checking all pipes are properly lagged, all electric fires are guarded, and paraffin heaters are out of draughts. |
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Efforts are under way to introduce prescribed fires to restore pre-European savanna conditions. |
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The city's sewage treatment plant has suffered three fires and the emergency holding dam will overflow after tonight. |
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Portugal is battling its most devastating forest fires for a decade, as strong wind fan the flames. |
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Iraeli-Palestinian problems are likely also to increase, which will fan the resistance fires even more. |
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Josie fires the revolver, and the sound of the shot explodes into the air and disappears into the water. |
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The crews are trained to undertake tows of crippled boats, extinguish fires afloat and provide first aid. |
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You can do this by using an air cleaner, venting all gas appliances to the outside, and avoiding wood fires in your house. |
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The fires knocked out a number of vital systems, including main propulsion, and she was left wallowing in 25 ft waves driven by gale-force winds. |
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They cant find there target the war machine fires again, colour and light sent directly at us. |
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It's mostly teenagers, but there's youngsters as young as four and five starting fires in the wastelands around the estates. |
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Whatever happens, she's with me now, and her gentle touch quenches the wild fires burning within me. |
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On Tuesday the Fire Brigade were called to quench two fires which had been relit from the previous night. |
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Betacarotene helps to quench the chemical fires started by free radicals, and helps to protect the skin from sunburn. |
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Strong winds from 433 miles away had carried the smoke and acrid smell of forest fires all the way here. |
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With no fires raging, Williams had some time to share his lessons on the art of understanding fires and on what it takes to put them out. |
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This spring I drove from southeast Arizona past the fires in the northern part of the state, and then by fires raging in New Mexico and Colorado. |
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Thousands of acres of forest have also been lost to fires raging in Italy, where at least 60 heat-related deaths have been reported. |
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With the sprinkler systems disabled, the fires raged uncontrollably, weakening the steel and leading to the collapse of the buildings. |
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The US Defense Secretary was trying to make sense of early unconfirmed reports that fires were raging in the oil-rich fields in the south. |
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Its communications are still down and thermal scans of the ship show several massive fires raging in what we guess is its engineering section. |
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They ate food cooked in their juices over fires fuelled from their husks, and used antiseptic squeezed from them on cuts. |
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The figures fell within the normal range of 30 to 50 fires per day, a spokesman said Tuesday. |
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One woman, who requested anonymity, said Government must get serious about dealing with fires in the city. |
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The trees will be planted in small natural openings and areas ravaged by fires or logging. |
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It is now our own fires that must be controlled, understood, organized and made ready to confront and conquer whatever awaits us. |
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This year will go down as the worst on record for forest fires in Portugal. |
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Frequent formation changes, shaped by both the enemy and terrain, forced the commander to constantly reapportion fires to facilitate security. |
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Tell the men they are free to start any fires they wish, as long as it is within reason. |
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Spot fires broke out on the hills and ridges ahead of the main front, and quickly spread. |
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John's baptismal water may put out some of the fires we have kindled ourselves. |
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A mother and her four children were today in fear for their lives after two suspicious fires at their home within days. |
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Wizardry was the art of manipulating objects, doing things such as creating fires and enchanting items. |
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Forestry Minister John Browne has urged forest owners to be prepared and on alert and to help to stamp out fires in plantations. |
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The hotel was the first to reopen after the 1906 earthquake and fires leveled every hotel in the city. |
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The rooms were bigger than The Laughing God's, but no fires had been laid, there were no hot baths, and meals cost two coppers apiece. |
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She had planned a witty rejoinder but the sight of him standing in front of her, so arrogantly beautiful, stoked the fires of her temper. |
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Well-timed equipment fires may be a standing industry joke, but the reality is no laughing matter. |
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Nobody tells journalists not to write articles and leaders condemning this insane corporate stoking of the fires of climate change. |
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Before he fires the third shot, Janie grabs the hidden rifle and they both shoot at each other. |
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The first man takes the rifle and shoots, the second man picks up the rifle when the first man falls and fires the rifle. |
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Story telling and shadows have been around since the time of the cave people, when their fires flickered as they told stories in to the night. |
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Fire chiefs are warning the smoking ban may result in a rise in the number of house fires as more people light up at home. |
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I arrived there late in the evening just as the smoke from the village fires was forming a perfect horizontal line above the fields. |
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These fires were not catastrophic infernos but rather a life-giving natural event for the forest. |
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It's an explosive mix that has turned normal fires into ferocious infernos. |
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The cool, moist ocean breezes replaced the hotter and drier Santa Ana wind that had whipped fires into raging infernos at the weekend. |
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New roads were constructed as wide boulevards to prevent fires from spreading from one side of the street to the other. |
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They all climbed down and hurried back to their fires where meat was roasting tenderly. |
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The pilot then fires the rocket motor for 80 seconds and pulls into a vertical climb. |
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The firing mechanism mechanically fires the spotting rifle and uses a magneto to fire the rocket. |
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In turn, growing consumer demand fires competition for fresh water, energy, arable land, forest products, and fish. |
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High ceilings and arched windows create a light and airy setting, while wood-panelled walls, open fires and plush seating add to the comfort. |
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The ancient Lithuanians worshiped many gods and believed that forests and fires were sacred. |
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Crews from Farnworth have tackled 289 car fires of which 121 were in Little Hulton. |
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He would bank the furnace fires and close the draft to insure live coals the next morning. |
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We are also leaving species that have survived fires in the past, including Douglas fir and to a lesser extent, lodgepole pine. |
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Last year, it started selling fuel pellets made from waste wood and sawdust, designed to be burned in home fires and log burners. |
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It is a knock for those trying to encourage clean air policies and switch from open fires and log burners to electricity. |
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From a distance of about six feet, he aims the shotgun at Danny's side and fires off a round. |
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He said youths who started out setting cars alight often moved on to house fires and other more serious arson attacks. |
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The press has been quick to condemn arsonists for the fires raging in New South Wales in Australia. |
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Police and fire investigators are looking into a spate of suspicious fires in Braintree. |
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She fires off the cleanest and most articulated runs without a trace of strain or unwanted aspirates. |
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An exact mix of high explosive and incendiary bombs was used to start the kind of fires that burned Dresden. |
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Her voice was slow but determined, the fires and winds quieting at the sound of her low voice. |
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In a moment of lucidity, I connected the fires with the situation of the homeless in the city. |
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The gun fires separate loading projectiles which have semi-combustible cartridge case and sabot. |
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The real macher in the conflagration over forest fires is Mark Rey, the Agriculture Department undersecretary. |
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This full-size model of a high-powered Luger automatic pistol holds and fires 70 rounds automatically. |
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We have to avert our eyes from the bombs and fires once in a while to look at the other images of this war. |
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The villagers cook on open fires with precariously balanced pots, which result in many scalds and burns. |
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Out in the rural backblocks, things haven't changed much from early settler days when fires often raged due to a lack of water. |
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In December 1952, a particularly cold spell meant that most people kept their coal fires burning more than usual. |
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Forest fires burning in the woods outside Moscow have filled the city with smoke. |
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Open fires burning wood and coal are the main cause of the pollution, along with vehicle emissions. |
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There are three major fires burning up there with smoke going high into the sky, and just beside us here, an oil tanker is well on fire. |
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The ground burns just scorched the butts a bit, whereas the crown fires damaged the stems. |
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The trap-jaw ant fires its mandibles with such force to propel itself to the front of the pack. |
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Nationwide, fires scorched 7.4 million acres, almost twice the 10-year average. |
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Small mammals such as bush rats and marsupial carnivores survived the fires by hiding under boulders and in damp rock crevasses. |
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Most of the people it seemed spent their time walking around aimlessly or staring and marvelling at the fires in pits outside their homes. |
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A fireplace smelled of fires past and thousands of matchbooks lined the walls and filled giant glass bowls. |
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It fires its way through first, second and third with a savageness that's terrifyingly addictive. |
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Though MacArthur forbade air attacks against the city heavy artillery barrages by both sides levelled much of what the fires had left standing. |
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During the night, about 500 protesters erected barricades, set fires and threw rocks and bottles at police, who responded with water cannon. |
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This and a host of other community support projects reduce the numbers of fires throughout the region. |
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He talks to others who had a brush with disaster fighting fires and rock-climbing in the Blue Mountains. |
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A little later we hear two dull thuds echoing across the valley as one of the Apaches fires its missiles. |
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His reputation suffered, as the diaries fed the fires stoked by sensationalists. |
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Many of these fires happen when someone falls asleep in bed or on upholstered furniture such as a sofa while smoking. |
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Mats or leaves generally serve as beds, and cooking is done on open fires near the huts. |
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It looked a mess, buildings trashed and fires burning all that the townspeople held dear. |
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But fires can kill when flames reach the crowns of smaller trees and leap from there to the limbs of the sequoias, high above the ground. |
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Investigators also look at how fires behave and how people are affected by them as well as why people start them. |
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Community studies suggest that a large number of children have set fires at some time in their life. |
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Protesters set fires at points outside the fence, tearing it down in at least one place. |
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Since childhood, he's always had a passion for setting fires and creating fire. |
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Have you ever heard of him throwing televisions out of the hotel windows and setting fires and doing this and that? |
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I suppose if I got to that point, would I start setting fires so that I could document the result? |
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During the past two days, residents have been setting fires on the streets to highlight deplorable living conditions. |
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The energy the gun was storing starts to leak out, setting fires off all over the surface of the ship. |
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Both burials appear to have involved ceremonies which included setting fires and placing offerings. |
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People are even setting fires deliberately and calling them out simply in order that they can attack them. |
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Migrant workers set fires to burn off the wild plants so they can plant vegetables. |
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He produced photographs of vacant houses and said people were going into them and setting fires in them. |
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This particular story is about what fires you at the most primal level of your being. |
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I have always been really aware of fires and I knew to shut the door to block the fire out. |
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He fires again, and then, shotgun in hand, charges the mob, bellowing at the top of his lungs. |
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The charity survived a number of shop fires but these troubles made them stronger to set up shop again and again. |
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Wood fires can also release benzopyrene, a carcinogen that can irritate your eyes, nose, throat, and lungs. |
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Sudden falls, along with injuries caused by animals and fires are also counted among the main causes of children's deaths. |
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September's mildness gave way to the nip of October, causing fires to be lit throughout the great house, and still no word came from Mr Darcy. |
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You understand, sort of, when people die of natural tragedies, whether it's fires or tornadoes or hurricanes or whatever. |
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As the fires and pumps began to burn off the remaining water within him, a thin trail of smoke exited his nostrils. |
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But officials now say the city itself is safe, at least for now, after a shift in winds turned the largest of the fires back on itself. |
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If the photon passes through the mirror, it automatically triggers a light-sensing device, which fires the gun and shoots the cat dead. |
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Here at last was a set of fires as massive and extensive as any that might be generated by nuclear missiles. |
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However, forest fires are well-known, important mechanisms for exchanging elements between the biosphere and the atmosphere. |
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The fires penetrated into the dried-out surface peat to a depth of up to 1.5 metres. |
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Those who still use turf for their home fires have never had a better year to save the crop in the bogs. |
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But don't assume that open wood and peat-burning fires translate into twee and chintzy cosiness. |
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But those states were spared when record-breaking monsoons brought heavy summer rains instead of the fierce fires officials had expected. |
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He said the fires had been blazing for so long that some of them had actually burned themselves out for lack of oxygen. |
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Two weeks ago hot weather brought moorland fires across the country including parts of the Peak District. |
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He fires more questions at the ghost, but the spirit only points at the grave in answer. |
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Because fires can start anywhere smoke alarms are ideal for early detection. |
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The similarity of the two fires suggests the possibility of malicious intent. |
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Those fires have been fueled by a blistering heat wave that's smothering most of Europe. |
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The smoke comes from cow dung fires used to drive off flies and mosquitoes. |
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Firefighters said fires were started in two separate spots and spread through most of the building. |
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According to one unconfirmed report the fires may have been started deliberately as part of a malicious attack against a telco. |
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The rules apply to all gas appliances, including central heating boilers, water heaters, fires and cookers. |
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Some fires smoldered for weeks, burning down through logging slash and the deep soil until they scorched the rocks below. |
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Some of the fires are blamed on logging companies clearing land for plantations, others are set by small farmers using slash-and-burn methods. |
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This may be the only alternative, because there usually are no trees that survive to record successive fires as fire scars within the bole. |
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The Multiple Launch Rocket Systems weapon, which fires hundreds of bomblets, is likely to be in reserve. |
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There were 21 injuries as a result of accidental fires a slight increase from last year but half of those reported were from just two incidents. |
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The pair had been setting off fireworks, lighting fires and throwing aerosol cans onto a bonfire. |
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Mortars have too little range and versatility, unguided rockets too little inherent accuracy to bring fires in close to friendly troops. |
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Several small fires were crackling away and shelters were slung between trees. |
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Malquin shook on his knees, the new wound only adding to the burning fires of pain inside of him. |
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About 98 per cent of all fires in the savannah region are unplanned and unmanaged. |
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The Siberian northern boreal forests, called Taiga, where the fires were burning are mainly spruce and fir trees. |
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Over the centuries, earthquakes and fires did their bit, while Napoleonic troops managed accidentally to blow up eight towers. |
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About 2 percent of the fires that MODIS detected were from industrial sources, like gas flares and smelteries. |
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The chimneys of the homes smoked as families burned fires inside to keep warm. |
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The fires also suppress exotic cool-season grasses and stimulate growth among native grasses. |
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Often in some of these countries, vanilla beans are dried over fires to speed up the process, giving the vanilla beans a smoky aroma. |
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The air felt fresh after our time in Kathmandu Valley, where brick kilns and fires generate a thick layer of smog that blankets the city. |
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Each winter about 450 homes are damaged by fire and 400 fires result from unswept chimneys. |
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Forest fires are a necessary evil, argue scientists and government officials. |
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You're invited to bring along your picnic basket and blanket but no fires or braais are permitted. |
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Haphazardly installed electrical wiring is common in many small private schools and can create fires or electrocute an unwary child or teacher. |
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He then took his place, and the others each lighted a torch in one of the other outer fires and used it to light one of the braziers. |
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The air was thick with the smoke from coal fires in tin braziers and stoves. |
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Before a few stood braziers and camp fires from the night before, allowing for a few of the arrows to be wrought in flame. |
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We will still attend fires and every new firefighter will have the best modern up-to-date training. |
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He said the last two car fires burned a soil pipe at the side of a house and residents had been unable to use the toilet. |
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There are an average of two or three fires in the city a day, resulting in a high usage of the equipment. |
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Twice-daily media briefings served as the primary source of news, and access to the fires was severely restricted. |
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What impact, if any, does soot and black carbon from fires have on the glaciers of Kilimanjaro? |
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On many days wood fires are banned, as they add to the big brown cloud held in by atmospheric inversions. |
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In the boreal forest of northwestern Canada, recurring natural fires have a major effect on the vegetation. |
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This is being called the Cave Creek complex fire after two smaller brush fires actually merged. |
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He may not have the time to manage the brush fires that kindle whenever biology, race, and intelligence are mentioned together. |
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Using newly invented leather hoses and hand-pumped fire engines, the volunteers were able to douse fires more efficiently than bucket brigades. |
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For rooms where fires are a possible concern, you can get ceilings made of mineral fiber, which is noncombustible. |
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For example, the assault rifle fires bullet bursts as a primary fire, and launches grenades for secondary. |
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Visitors were also able to learn how to light fires and comb and spin wool. |
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Yet the city is dependent for dealing with fires on a salt-water mains system that is known to have been non-functional for the past three years. |
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Mandy fires the grappling hook onto a guardrail and bungees down into space, the cable holding her as she lowers herself to the fifth floor. |
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In fact, unexplained fires started to pop up in bushland all round the town. |
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The camp fires begin to scintillate from one end of the rush to the other and 2,000 hungry men sit down to bush tucker of the roughest sort. |
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Areas of the building prone to fires must have fire alarms and automatic sprinklers. |
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People living nearby fear for their own homes, after a number of fires at the site, and are worried children are often inside at all hours. |
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Lightning strikes, arsonists and relentless hot north winds yesterday fanned bush fires across Australia's most populous state. |
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The bush fires started burning into Gippsland, making the establishment of a staging area in that region increasingly likely. |
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Finally, if you live in a multilevel house, definitely put detectors at the top of stairwells, to give early warning of fires moving upwards. |
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Grass fires breaking out from Mongolia crossed the borderline with China. |
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Despite the warnings, fires have begun raging again in the center of Suva and the fire department has called back all firefighters on leave to help battle the blazes. |
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And they were used for starting fires by focusing the rays of the sun. |
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Not until the army fires an explosive into their hideout and the mall burns down does the ordeal finally reach closure. |
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Fish is boiled or grilled over open fires and eaten by hand. |
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Then, in the same five-second span, the shooter fires three shots. |
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The partner passes the ball back and the shooter fires away. |
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Ships were still smoking and fires kept breaking out on the harbor and Matt knew that no matter what happened after this, he would never forget it. |
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He says around 80 per cent of the West MacDonnells park is spinifex, and the big fires that come out of it damage the sensitive non-spinifex areas. |
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It reduced scores of buildings to dust, ignited fires that raged apocalyptically for four days, and cut San Francisco off from all outside communication. |
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In the summer, storms bring forest fires to the boreal zone. |
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With snow and ice outside, on the inside the fires of teaching, worship and sadhana were kept burning by 100 devotees, including babies and elders. |
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And the authorities also worry that the December fires are just the beginning. |
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Coal and wood fires smell wonderful but are messy and time-consuming. |
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In some cases, trees older than those fires were observed but because the pine snags were younger I assume that these older trees survived the fire. |
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This method is also utilized in a tandoor and in old-fashioned bread ovens, whose linings take up heat from fires lit inside, and radiate it back to the food being cooked. |
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At first light, when alpenglow fires the high summits with radiance like the burn of a gigantic campfire, the dusty surface of the old snowpack glows with eerie luster. |
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But in order to commence rebuilding them from the ground up, the world must first put out the fires of this current epidemic. |
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The spaceship then drops into gliding flight and fires its rocket motor while climbing steeply for more than a minute, reaching a speed of 2,500 mph. |
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With Edison's new system, brown-outs and black-outs were frequent, along with breakage and, at times, sparking and fires from short circuits and poor wiring. |
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Between the hills and us, soggy fires burned the bare cotton stalks of an early winter harvest. |
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Plus, you have to watch for possible explosions, gas leaks, backdrafts, and flash fires, and so you can't just point your firefighters at fires and let them work on their own. |
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The persistent dry conditions in the northern provinces and along the south and east coasts led to numerous fires in which thousands of hectares of veld burned. |
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Unlike forest fires in other areas, the sight of smoke and flame here means that the roots and lower trunks of cajeputs have caught fire even as their canopy remains green. |
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An old flame and I met and reignited uncontrollable fires of passion. |
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But it's a scattershot effort, abandoned as soon as big fires break out. |
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He shows me how to load the handgun and then he fires it into the sky. |
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Crews tried to contain the blazes, but as the days progressed, the number of fires was simply out of their control. |
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The usual emergencies such as fires or road traffic accidents will not elicit a response from these vehicles, even with the crews and fire engines on station. |
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Another of the king's sniveling nobles had noticed, however, that she slipped out of his house long after candles had been snuffed and fires extinguished. |
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Several fires were already burning in Tasmania by the 7th, when an approaching cold front brought strengthening northerly winds and extremely hot air. |
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Expert ropers caught the calves with a loop around their hind legs and dragged them out of the herd to the fires where the branding irons were heating. |
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Officials charge these loggers then set forest fires and stripped trees of their bark in order to get the death certificates required to cut them down. |
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In dealing with Payton, and with other brush fires that have sprung up around the Sonics, McMillan has been a master of rapprochement without even knowing it. |
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Small cooking fires lit up the ghats leading down to the water. |
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The town has suffered a spate of deliberately started fires this year, including high profile blazes at the old tannery and new hospital buildings. |
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The year was 2006 and Allen, like her fellow UK countrymen Arctic Monkeys, was borne in the freaky fires of MySpace. |
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Ten days later the fires had burned out and I shared a railway buffet car with dozens of Cree and Swampy Cree travelling north from Thomson to Hudson Bay. |
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Firefighters there said visibility was less than 100 metres, hampering efforts to locate fires in the region's heavily forested and rugged terrain. |
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According to Congressman Tom Udall, over 35 million gallons of cyanide containing fire retardants were dumped on fires in the West this summer alone. |
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A big number of many-colored flares, both friendly and enemy, that were fired from the ground, as well as fires in drop areas, confused the assembly signals. |
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While we watch fires ablaze in the Middle East and judge other peoples as uncivilized, have we not lost civilization here? |
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When the wheel begins to turn, soon the Beltane fires will burn. |
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This includes walnut flooring and electronics to control everything from the living flame gas fires in each split-level lounge area to the electric curtains on the windows. |
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The fires that corporate America lit have now become a conflagration beyond its control. |
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In the High Street two huge concrete water tanks were erected to provide emergency supplies to fight fires if any incendiary devices were dropped. |
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There were man-made ones too of course and most of these were forest fires in California which took some time to control as there were strong winds urging them on. |
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Living as they do in the heart of the volatile Caucasus, Georgians are only too aware of the fires that surround them. |
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The sniper crossbow fires bolts that set whatever they hit aflame. |
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Wresting a few coals from the fires of modernization, it suggests a way modern audio-visual technologies can link the past with the homogenizing present. |
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An investigation later revealed that fires had been started deliberately in different parts of the house and containers of white spirit or turpentine were recovered. |
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At a time when fire-fighting equipment was virtually non-existent and buildings constructed of timber and thatch, town fires were a constant hazard. |
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Fortunately, TIME Magazine is reporting many of the books may have been saved from the fires of radicalism. |
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Most of the fires are under control, and the exposed areas are sealed off. |
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Subsurface fires can also be monitored using aerial infrared thermography. |
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When Thera erupted, the Minoans would have been clobbered by tsunamis, overwater pyroclastic flows, and fires from oil lamps knocked over by the eruption's shockwave. |
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The new report suggests that the response time to any fires in homes, or to any life-threatening incident, should be seven minutes wherever it happens. |
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All that could be carried off was taken, all that could not was wasted by the fires they kindled, even onto the humblest grain store-house of the poor cottars. |
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We grew up skiing, horseback riding, hiking, and building fires at summer camp in our hometown of Winchester, Mass. |
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Surely a preacher can warm his heart at the fires these men have kindled. |
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At points along the perimeter of the crowd local residents tended smoky turf fires and plied their trade of selling cups of tea at exorbitant prices. |
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Last November, a series of fires began to plague the small California city of Brawley. |
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Completing the arrangement of domestic buildings is the woodshed, a building that was vital for the fires that both warmed the house and cooked the food. |
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Bush fires are terrorising Australia's cuddly national icon, the koala. |
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And warning signs include soot stains on or above appliances, coal or wood fires burning slowly or going out and everyone at home feeling ill at the same time. |
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The dead leaves form a skirt around the stem until they are burnt back to the leaf bases by occasional fires to form a sheath around the true stem. |
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Most of the fires have begun in cars sitting in open-air garages beneath residential units. |
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The intense thunderstorm will quench the fires before they become wildfires and will dislodge the weaker numbers and prepare them for the next fire. |
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But with the passage of time, one might have thought all these fires would have faded into a satiated afterglow. |
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Parents kept vigil, wrapped in blankets before fires at the site of the catastrophe amid the silence of those buried under the mountain of masonry. |
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The real narcos are as much of a threat to the forest as the loggers, through the devastating fires they set to clear land for poppy and marijuana production. |
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Andrew Aitchison, Mackintosh's land agent in Scotland, said there had been a succession of fires of which at least one could have ended in tragedy. |
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They were most likely used to drop objects on attackers, or to allow water to be poured on fires to extinguish them. |
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Their opening of the concert with Brass in Pocket always fires up the crowd. |
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Some Scotch whisky distilleries, such as those on Islay, use peat fires to dry malted barley. |
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Because of their height, steeples can also be vulnerable to lightning, which can start fires within steeples. |
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As buildings collapsed from the shaking, ruptured gas lines ignited fires that spread across the city and burned out of control for several days. |
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The new wiring was implicated in a number of house fires and the industry returned to copper. |
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It can also be used for class C fires where the nonconductivity of the extinguishing agent is important. |
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But when it came to action I found myself between the fires of two professional narrow-mindednesses. |
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The ship was abandoned several hours later, gutted and deformed by the fires that continued to burn for six more days. |
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From July to October, there is often haze caused by bush fires in neighbouring Indonesia, usually from the island of Sumatra. |
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British fire brigades have reported fires started by Eccles cakes overcooked in microwave ovens. |
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At Port Said, the heavy fighting in the streets and the resulting fires destroyed much of the city, killing many civilians. |
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A cake is a cluster of individual tubes linked by fuse that fires a series of aerial effects. |
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Finally the Lantern roof crashed down into the crossing, preventing the fires from spreading further. |
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The fake fires could only begin when the bombing started over an adjacent target and its effects were brought under control. |
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Insulae were often dangerous, unhealthy, and prone to fires because of overcrowding and haphazard cooking arrangements. |
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Evidence of huge fires on the banks of the Avon between the two avenues also suggests that both circles were linked. |
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Severe fires can lead to significant further erosion if followed by heavy rainfall. |
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Spiritual rituals frequently occurred in consecrated groves or upon islands on lakes where perpetual fires burned. |
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Fire worship was a cornerstone of Celtic practice and perpetual fires were kept on Druidic altars and in places of worship. |
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I spent all of Monday fighting fires and didn't get a single thing done on my project. |
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As though on an incendiary rampage, the fires systematically devoured the contents of Edison's headquarters and facilities. |
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They had survived several fires in their twenty years and probably would have everlasted but this had been exceptional. |
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The pupils of her great eyes were large in the doubtful lamplight, swallowing their green fires in deep pools of mystery and darkness. |
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Today we have a dozen chickenless counties, and if fires are not checked in the peat lands, we shall end with a chickenless state. |
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The best of the catch is hand-picked, then carefully smoked over fires of black alder wood from local forests. |
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Authorities said suspected militants set fires on tires, cell towers, telephone booths, buildings and closed-circuit cameras. |
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Hopefully, today's warning will make those who mindlessly set these fires think again. |
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The fires roasted nutritious Tarweed seeds, a fire-resistant plant similar to the sunflower, as well as grasshoppers and caterpillars. |
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The most important pollutants generated in fires are poly-cyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and polyhalo-genated dibenzodioxins and furans. |
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Firefighters have managed to contain the bushfire but remained on alert for more fires as extremely dry weather conditions persist. |
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Navy and Raytheon Company completed operational testing and evaluation live fires of the AIM-9X Sidewinder Block II infrared air-to-air missile. |
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Calcination of limestone using charcoal fires to produce quicklime has been practiced since antiquity by cultures all over the world. |
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The fires destroyed hundreds of olive and almond trees and a large area of cultivated land and crops. |
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Bambi was released in 1942, and two years later the Smokey Bear campaign to reduce forest fires began. |
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Sustaining an otherwise cerulean sky, oily black smoke billows a mile high from more than half a dozen fires south of Lake Okeechobee. |
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Having fought many fires in the States, I sure didn't envy future Smokey Bears in that terrain. |
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A radar gun fires microwave pulses at a car and measures the Doppler shift of the reflected signal to calculate its velocity. |
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They positioned their fires upwind of Nathanial so as to ensure he smelt the food cooking on the open spit fires. |
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To find comfort, Casey becomes obsessed with building fires to send smoke signals to her mother, hoping she'll see them and come back. |
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St. Elmo's fires are extremely frequent at the Pic du Midi on lightning-conductors. |
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