Sentence examples for fire devoured from inspiring English sources

Mr. Feuerstein won prominence in 1995, after a fire devoured much of his plant.

(AP) — Six children were killed when a fire devoured a two-story house early Saturday in this town about 45 miles north of Albany, officials said.

A22 Fire Razes Atlanta Apartments Nearly 60 people were left homeless when fire devoured their apartment building east of downtown Atlanta.

After the fire devoured her apartment building and another fire the same weekend destroyed buildings in the Nodine Hill section of Yonkers, leaving 520 people homeless within two days, the Red Cross set up two emergency relief centers, distributing food, clothing, and connecting the victims with city agencies.

With the fire headed his way, Charlie made a deliberate act to cut its path before the fire devoured his home.

Great beauty and tenderness accompany an account of fire devouring a house, from the first little flame "stretching its neck for sustenance like a little orange chick," to its joyous triumph, "as swelling and as rolling as the sea".

By midday Sunday, the authorities ordered the evacuation of 20,000 residents in Aghios Stefanos, a suburb 14 miles north of Athens, where the fires devoured homes and pine and olive groves.

State emergency officials said they feared that the fires, devouring some of the thickest and driest brush in years, could surpass the destruction of 2003, when California experienced its worst fire season on record.

By the time orders came directly from the King to "spare no houses", the fire had devoured many more houses, and the demolition workers could no longer get through the crowded streets.

The blaze, sparked by lightning, was among several in the West where fires have devoured dry grass and brush and burned to the edges of small communities.

By July 27, fires had devoured nearly 100,000 acres — more than double the forest that had burned in Yellowstone in the previous 15 years.