The phrase "as a conflagration" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that is intense, destructive, or widespread, often in a metaphorical sense.
Example: "The debate over climate change erupted as a conflagration, consuming all rational discourse and leaving only heated arguments in its wake."
Alternatives: "like a wildfire" or "as a blaze".
It is as when a conflagration has broken out in a great city, and no man knows what is safe, or where it will end".
The fire hazard posed when the top jetties all but met across the narrow alleys was well perceived—"as it does facilitate a conflagration, so does it also hinder the remedy", wrote one observer —but "the covetousness of the citizens and connivancy [that is, the corruption] of Magistrates" worked in favour of jetties.
The CBI in its statement this week lamented the shortage of "inspirational" science teachers and one imagines, with a sinking heart, how the role played by the iPod in the averted terror plot last week will be seized on in classrooms across the land as a rare conflagration of science, current affairs and - groove on! - the pop charts.
The fires are now being managed as a single conflagration called the San Gabriel Complex fire, authorities said.
It is hardly surprising that the hysteria he has fanned has now become a conflagration that will consume him, as well.
On April 26 , 1986 at 1 23 A.M., Reactor No. 4 at Chernobyl trembled and exploded, causing a conflagration that spewed a radioactive cloud ten times as deadly as the radiation at Hiroshima.
On Saturday, October 27, 1962, as we took the last steps toward a conflagration, John F. Kennedy proposed a deal to Nikita Khrushchev.
A conflagration between Iran and Israel would, alas, be seen as a faith-based conflict by millions; so would war between India and Pakistan.
And as the venomous confrontations and threats between Abner and Lonzo build to a conflagration, you see every side of the story.
What initially began as a few sparks flying about your single has officially turned into a conflagration.
