Investigators said the temperature of the fire climbed above 2,000 degrees, well above the 1,200 degrees that the fire shelters are designed to withstand.
Death toll in warehouse fire climbs as search halted by unstable conditions.
He stood on the shed roof and watched as the fire climbed up the eight-story factory.
As the death toll in the Oakland warehouse fire climbs, investigators face a daunting task: figuring out how flames swiftly raced through the building and killed so many inside. .
With so many trees crammed into the forest, fires climbed straight to the canopy instead of remaining on the ground.
The ferns also grow as vines into taller portions of trees, and fires climb the ferns in "fire ladders" to scorch portions of the trees that are not naturally resistant to fire.
Nancy Ortiz-Shadp had a typical South Bronx childhood: fall to spring was devoted to school, and her summers were spent running under water spewing from fire hydrants and climbing fire escapes.
Death toll in Oakland fire climbs to 33 as families, friends fear the worst.
Another resident, Howard Wood, 49, escaped the fire by climbing out of a window.
Whitman massacred 13 students and wounded 30 more with sniper fire after climbing a tower on the school's campus in 1966.
