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.
Fireworks mingled with the tracer fire climbing into the sky and "Benghazi bangers" – firecrackers improvised from artillery shells – rocked the city centre.
He stood on the shed roof and watched as the fire climbed up the eight-story factory.
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.
He lifts a lid on a pot of spaghetti, plays tricks on his bicycle, races down a fire escape, climbs a tree in a natural history museum.
Another resident, Howard Wood, 49, escaped the fire by climbing out of a window.
She pulled away then, and he let her go, and she left the fire and climbed, trembling, into her burrow.
