"The fire blew up, basically," Mr. Paxon said.
When the fire blew through the house, it burned with the most intensity in the couple's third-floor bedroom.
Last May, though, 60 of its 78 acres were destroyed, including thickly treed hillsides, when the rampaging Jesusita fire blew down Mission Canyon.
At last, she reached the top and, to her relief, saw a blazing fire blowing gusts of smoke across the sky.
An underground fire blew off four manhole covers in the Morris Heights neighborhood yesterday morning before spreading to three adjacent service boxes, said Joe Petta, a Consolidated Edison spokesman.
"The fire blew up as firefighters were trying to evacuate to get to a safe place and all of them were in serious threat of losing their lives".
The store's owner, Jean-Gilles Malliarakis, said the explosion caused a fire, blew out the windows in his store and damaged the windows of about 15 neighboring buildings.
A quarter of a century ago, Mark Henshaw's Out of the Line of Fire blew up like a bomb, a playful postmodern text appearing from nowhere in the midst of Australia's notorious dreary dun-coloured realism.
NEW DELHI — Indian naval divers on Wednesday afternoon opened the main hatchway of a stricken, Russian-made Indian submarine that caught fire, blew up and sank at dock earlier in the day in one of the worst naval accidents in Indian history.
Stockmarkets around the world, mostly in sympathy but with problems of their own, slid too.In this section A marginalised market Collywobbles Saturated At last, a price Seifert under fire Blowing it Screeching to the precipice Steering by a faulty compass ReprintsThe sweepers came in overnight to clear away the mess, and by midweek things looked better.
