Lady Nugent, the American wife of Jamaica's British governor, watched aghast as the conflagration raged.
Fought by 300 firefighters, the conflagration raged for 16 hours, destroying most of the bank's headquarters, the largest nongovernment building in Paris, one that dominated an entire block on the Boulevard des Italiens near the old Opra.
A misdirected melting pot, it sails on, as Philbrick notes, under "a man divided, seared and parboiled by the conflagration raging inside him," one who heedlessly sacrifices all those who have pledged their allegiance to him.
The devastated terrain was the result of the Station fire, Los Angeles County's largest-ever wild conflagration, which raged through the Angeles National Forest in August of 2009.
A conflagration rages in the city of the background, while a shooting star streaks through the sky.
By midnight the conflagration was raging fiercely in a rectangular area some 13, acres in extent and including 17 blocks.
That neglect has allowed the conflagration to rage at great human cost, radicalizing the opposition and putting at risk U.S. allies across the region.
The conflagration now raging in San Diego County came within 50 yards of a house in the town of Valley Center that replaced one destroyed several years ago.
Similarly, Japan was reeling in the Pacific Theater, and the journalism of the day reflected the sense that the conflagration that had raged across three continents was nearly at an end.
Just outside Athens in July, one of the deadliest conflagrations in recorded history raged through coastal towns, killing 99 people.
The conflagration spread, and fighting raged throughout the day.
