Rescue crews responding to reports of people possibly trapped on upper floors of the buildings converged quickly after the first reports of the disaster at about 3.20pm ET. Twenty minutes later, firefighters on ladders poured water on flames leaping as high as three stories from the roof of the buildings, on Second Avenue near the corner of Seventh Street.
Zawahiri said: "Crusaders and secularists and the Americanised army have converged … with Gulf money and American plotting to topple Mohamed Morsi's government".
Tens of thousands of protesters converged on central Minsk last night, as exit polls indicated that Lukashenko - a Soviet-style dictator - would be awarded four-fifths of the vote.
By whatever strange satirical alchemy Thatcher eventually came to resemble her Spitting Image puppet, so Blair has now converged totally with the mad-eyed Steve Bell image that was once still an exaggeration of his essence.
The Republican National Committee power players converged this week at a swanky California hotel to chart a roadmap back to political relevancy, a blueprint to finally transcend the various tactical failings that contributed to their second consecutive presidential defeat only months earlier.
More than half a million people converged upon the centre of Melbourne, with $400,000-worth of fireworks fired into the night's sky to mark the new year.
In theory, the prices of various securities should have converged around a general market interest rate.
OVER 100,000 Taiwanese protesters converged on the presidential office in Taipei on August 3rd, accusing the defence ministry of cover-ups and calling for justice.
There was also a persistent fear that the government might have so over-extended itself with debt that a general failure of markets was inevitable.The despairing and the hopeful, the greedy and those simply too lazy to farm all converged on coffee houses near the Royal Exchange to do business.
Militiamen from a dozen states converged on Balmorhea, about 30 miles north of the Republic's compound, in a show of solidarity, and seven were arrested at the Flying Jay truck stop in Pecos.
In Santiago, the capital, which sits 800 km south of the mine, a flag-waving crowd converged on Plaza Italia, a roundabout on the banks of the city's Mapocho River, where football fans traditionally celebrate their teams' victories.But it could still be a long time before the trapped miners see the light of day.
