Sentence examples for blaze about from inspiring English sources

Thousands more residents were put on pre-evacuation notice in case the blaze, about 230 acres, broke toward the city.

An off-duty firefighter spotted the blaze about 7 30 a.m. and made sure that all the residents were out of the buildings.

"I'm not buying that at all," Joe Stutler, the Forest Service manager in charge of fighting this blaze about 140 miles northeast of Seattle, said of the criticism.

Gov. Jerry Brown declared a state of emergency in Riverside County as one blaze about 90 miles east of Los Angeles in the San Jacinto Mountains, known as the Silver Fire, swelled to 17,500 acres.

The blaze, about the size of San Francisco, has also scared away tourists after fire officials warned that crews will likely be battling a wildfire raging in steep, forested ridges just to the north for another month.

The copter was carrying 10 contract firefighters, 2 pilots and a Forest Service employee, who were fighting an 87,500-acre blaze about 200 miles north of San Francisco.

Two small blazes about 25 miles south of San Jose forced several residents from their homes Sunday.

In recent days errant fireworks have killed two people in Beijing, injured 388 others and started 194 blazes, about twice as many as last year, according to the state media.

"He should be going out guns blazing about our record".

"We were all blazing about it when it happened," she said.

Last week he came out all guns blazing about the use of music as torture at Gitmo.