Television stations showed images of fire descending on structures with little to stop it, and Los Angeles County rushed to shift firefighters there from another large fire in Malibu that had earlier seemed poised for large-scale destruction.
After Beckham played a key role in London being awarded the Games in 2005 an estimated 900 million people watched as the boat sped down the River Thames synchronised to a massive pyrotechnic display that included a curtain of fire descending from Tower Bridge.
Telemaco is greeted joyfully by Eumete and the disguised Ulisse in the woodland grove: "O great son of Ulysses, you have indeed returned!" After Eumete goes to inform Penelope of Telemaco's arrival a bolt of fire descends on Ulisse, removing his disguise and revealing his true identity to his son.
Today, we've got a new installment of Soundcheck at Southpaw featuring the well-fed, MC5-style wailing of Brooklyn's own Panthers, and a fresh episode of Bangs with our other hometown's current darlings the Arcade Fire descending the stage and plopping themselves straight in the middle of the pit for an encore.
When, in an astonishing sequence, great balls of fire descend on a lonely gas station, Alton says sorry: the fire is his doing.
They are gathered together in one place when suddenly tongues of fire descend from the heavens on the day of Pentecost.
The other four were blown up by a hail of mortar fire that descended from Franco's heavens.
After about half an hour of concentrated fire, he descended from the milk crate and emerged from the helmet, haloed by clouds of steam produced by the cooling spray he runs at the same time as the fire-lance.
Fortunately, some crews have been rotated to fight the fires that descended on the parched forests and mountains of San Diego County, but many firefighters have worked far longer than usual and in conditions that are little short of hellish.
But the lack of a low range means that, even though the all-wheel drive system lets you easily knock about ranch country or ascend a rugged fire road, descending such terrain would excessively work the transmission and brakes.
