Sentence examples for before the fire started from inspiring English sources

Prosecutors showed surveillance video of him pacing in front of the building moments before the fire started.

The officials said they did not know how long Ms. Williams had been gone before the fire started.

Police have declined to comment on witness reports of an altercation between a site manager and unknown men before the fire started.

"It appears that there may have been improper electrical work done as late as the morning before the fire started," Sergeant McInnis said.

Police said a site worker at the newly renovated hotel in South Melbourne disturbed two men and was assaulted before the fire started.

The Star-Ledger, citing anonymous sources, said that three guests who were asked to leave the building 45 minutes before the fire started might have been involved.

One should always decide who the fighters are before the fire starts.Let's hope the men in grey suits have drawn up a contingency plan in secret.

The authorities do not know whether the fire started before or after the crash, but an F.B.I. agent, J. Suzanne Nash, said that the gas tank did not explode and that the car was only slightly dented.

Local reporters said they suspected that the fire had started in the kitchen of the Blue Disco, the city's most popular nightspot of the moment, although the fire started long before the disco was scheduled to open.

It was unclear how Mr. Mohammad expected anyone to explain why he was inside the Glover Street building shortly before 7 a.m., when the fire started.

The fire started just before 2 a.m. and quickly spread, damaging four other buildings and displacing about 15 people.