Sentence examples for fire escalated from inspiring English sources

Firefighters from 60 companies from as far away as Queens and the Bronx were called in as the fire escalated to five alarms, Mr. Gribbon said.

He said the fire "escalated quickly".

"I opened the cupboard door and the whole cupboard was just engulfed in flames". He said it was "frightening how quickly the fire escalated".

Most of the Mann ingredients are in place: an exchange of fire escalates to a quasi-military engagement.

The firing escalated tensions on the Korean peninsula, which have been high since the North's January nuclear test and February long-range rocket launch, and set the South's military on a heightened alert.

The Honduran president said Thursday that he would ignore a high court ruling ordering him to reinstate the military chief he had fired, escalating a showdown that has threatened the leftist leader's hold on power.

Since 1999, as the percentage of the Forest Service budget dedicated to fires has escalated, non-fire staff have been cut by 39percentt, it says.

Air strikes by Israel, both following the discovery of the bodies and in response to rocket fire, have escalated in recent days despite assessments by analysts in Gaza and Israel that neither Hamas nor Israel wants a prolonged or bloody conflict.

The glutamate firing response rose and fell rapidly, while OH firing response escalated linearly during unchanging OHN stimulation of physiological duration.

In addition to the lapse in the sprinkler system, several other factors caused the fire to escalate into a tragedy, according to fire officials who say the failure of a self-closing door allowed the blaze to enter the hallway where the firefighters died.

Last month, frustrated youths took to the crumbling streets of Conakry for three days, throwing stones and setting tires on fire in escalating protests over high gas prices.