The word "blazes" is correct and usable in written English.
It is generally used as an intensifier or an informal exclamation, and can be used in both informal and formal contexts. For example, "I have been studying for this exam for weeks, and I still can't get the answer right - blazes!".
The record-setting temperatures (it had never been warmer in Colorado) that fueled those blazes drifted east across the continent as the week wore on: across the Plains, there were places where the mercury reached levels it hadn't touched even in the Dust Bowl years, America's previous all-time highs.
Meanwhile, crews were anticipating the possibility of more lightning strikes while battling a lightning-sparked wildfire in Mendocino County about 200 miles south-west of the Klamath blazes.
FIRE season is well underway, but some blazes get more publicity than others.
WHENEVER discoveries are announced that could possibly be of great importance for religious history, there tend to be blazes of publicity followed by periods of mysterious silence.
Past blazes of publicity have been ignited by Mr Rove's business dealings with Enron and his penchant for telling his Republican minions to "run on the war".Such spells in the limelight are hard to avoid when you wield as much power as George Bush's senior adviser for strategic initiatives.
In addition to the 6.5m acres that have burned this year, more than 300,000 acres have been scorched by lightning-sparked blazes that are allowed to run their course until they reach pre-defined perimeters.
LAZY summer days are a rarity for America's firefighters, who must battle dozens of big blazes around the west.
Looking at thousands of fires whose causes fire were known (about half the blazes in the past decade), the study suggested that the worst culprits were farmers starting fires to burn stubble, clear land or remove rubbish.
Although the overall area of land burned each season is in decline because of better fire-fighting equipment, the number of blazes in EU forests keeps rising.The poor shepherdResearchers point to several reasons, few of which can be resolved by water-bombing.
Firemen with no blazes to put out are easily bored.
Arnold Schwarzenegger, the current governor, is in charge of fighting this season's blazes.
