Sentence examples for burning floor from inspiring English sources

Barely two minutes later, officials said, the roof of the buildings caved in, pancaking one burning floor on top of another.

"The bigger children tried to climb up out of the cellar, and they took hold of the burning floor, and their little fingers were burned and they fell back on top of us".

The burning floor collapsing beneath Flanders' feet is a reference to the film Backdraft.

I watched five people throw themselves from burning floors.

ResQline lowers the employee at around 15 feet per second, which, according to the company, will allow evacuees to "pass five burning floors in less than five seconds".

One of the doors was locked and the New York fire brigade's ladders only reached the sixth storey, 30 feet (9 metres) short of the burning floors.

The chiefs and commanders were operating on standard F.D.N.Y. procedure on how to fight a high-rise fire: stay below the burning floors, and attack from there.

The night began with a shock: Ms. Cavanagh read her translation of "September 11," Ms. Szymborska's poem about a photograph of the people who "jumped from the burning floors" of the World Trade Center hand in hand.

Under the headline "THE MORGUE IS FULL OF OUR DEAD," the poet and Forward reporter, Morris Rosenfeld, pieced together an astonishing account of the tragedy: Forlornly [the crowd on the street] stood and watched as one girl after another fell, like shot birds, from above, from the burning floors.

Under the headline "THE MORGUE IS FULL OF OUR DEAD," the poet and Forward reporter, Morris Rosenfeld, pieced together an astonishing account of the tragedy: **{:.break one} ** Forlornly [the crowd on the street] stood and watched as one girl after another fell, like shot birds, from above, from the burning floors.

Dennis Clancey describes Zito's efforts to take as many women as possible on to the elevator each time he returned to one of the burning floors.