I understand that to mean that they won't simply be devouring them, firing redundant personnel, and Borging all Moto functionality into the Google name and brand.
Today, twice as much land in Canada is being devoured by fires as in the 1970s and that will double or quadruple again in the decades to come.
State emergency officials said they feared that the fires, devouring some of the thickest and driest brush in years, could surpass the destruction of 2003, when California experienced its worst fire season on record.
Great beauty and tenderness accompany an account of fire devouring a house, from the first little flame "stretching its neck for sustenance like a little orange chick," to its joyous triumph, "as swelling and as rolling as the sea".
Stoked by 80-mile-an-hour Santa Ana winds, plenty of dry fuel, and 8% humidity, such fires are devouring huge swaths of southern California from Los Angeles to Santa Barbara.
After the fire devoured her apartment building and another fire the same weekend destroyed buildings in the Nodine Hill section of Yonkers, leaving 520 people homeless within two days, the Red Cross set up two emergency relief centers, distributing food, clothing, and connecting the victims with city agencies.
Freder sees the machine transformed into a giant demon, spewing fire and devouring workers.
By midday Sunday, the authorities ordered the evacuation of 20,000 residents in Aghios Stefanos, a suburb 14 miles north of Athens, where the fires devoured homes and pine and olive groves.
