Sentence examples for fire swelled from inspiring English sources
Gov. Jerry Brown declared a state of emergency in Riverside County as one blaze about 90 miles east of Los Angeles in the San Jacinto Mountains, known as the Silver Fire, swelled to 17,500 acres.
In just a few hours on Wednesday night, the Spring Creek fire swelled by nearly 20,000 acres, with airborne sparks igniting new fires nearly one mile downwind.
A Santa Barbara County brush fire had swelled to more than 7,000 acres as of Saturday morning, fueled by strong winds, rising temperatures and an extended drought.
There was no repeat tonight of the huge demonstration on Monday, in which mobs swelled downtown and fired automatic rifles into the air.
Border guards responded with fire on the attackers whose numbers swelled to 400 a few hours later.
In the biggest test yet for China's new leaders, pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong swelled in number after police had fired tear gas to disperse protesters.
Strikers swelled from hundreds to thousands; hundreds were fired.
With each punctuation, the flash bulbs fired in syncopation, and Mr. Schwarzenegger's physical stature swelled before the cameras.
As the music swelled, you could barely make out the sound of mortars being fired into a rebel neighborhood nearby.
As anger swelled among the workers, the guardsmen withdrew into a roundhouse while the crowd set fire to the Pennsylvania Railroad's engines, cars, and buildings.
