Sentence examples similar to fire commenced instantaneously from inspiring English sources

The transcript (included below) doesn't explicitly designate where Williams was when the enemy fire commenced.

Firing commenced at 05:45 on 14 June.

Firing commenced on 2 September, and lasted until the Danes surrendered on 7 September.

Ferry service to Fire Island had commenced two decades earlier.

Once the forest gets dense enough, lightning sets a random tree on fire, and fire spreads instantaneously among trees that occupy adjacent squares.

Note that the decline in performance did not begin instantaneously but commenced 3 4 min after starting the task.

All witnesses agreed that general firing almost immediately commenced.

Meanwhile, the New Zealand artillery kept the Chinese at bay, after it finally commenced firing.

When they exploded, concealed Japanese mortars and machine guns commenced firing on the patrol and the craft offshore.

He loaded one bullet into the chamber so he could fire instantaneously in case of an attack and 11 more into a magazine.

"People started running and the fire ignited almost instantaneously," he said.