Sentence examples for fires set off from inspiring English sources

In Maiduguri, also in the northeast and the base of the Islamist sect, fires set off by homemade bombs burned down 11 roadside shops, the military said in a statement.

An estimated 855 refugees were killed, including 200 crammed inside a cave and suffocated by fires set off by air attacks; 100 huddled on a beach and shelled by an American ship; and 35 attacked by American aircraft in Kyongju, a town behind the lines in the south.

The Xavante have been trying to regenerate their forest, but the fires set off in neighbouring farming areas have been spreading to their land, stopping the process.

The resulting fire set off an automatic alarm, Firefighter McGill said, and firefighters responded.

In 2003 in Rhode Island, also fire set off by a pyrotechnic display at a club killed about 100 people.

In June, explosions and a fire set off by a gas leak tore through a poultry plant in northeast China, killing at least 119 people.

An explosion and fire set off by an accidentally dropped hand grenade killed 25 soldiers during a stock check at an ammunition depot, the government said Thursday.

The rocket fire set off sirens in the western Galilee and raised tensions in the region against the background of the conflict in Syria.

News flashes about the new artillery fire set off a brief wave of alarm in Seoul, where Tuesday's attack has stirred anxiety and outrage.

On his orders, his live-in employees burned incriminating documents in his fireplace, but the fire set off smoke alarms that brought the town Fire Department and, later, the F.B.I.

A traffic reporter for KOMO News that operates out of Fisher Plaza tweeted that a fire set off the sprinkler system which fried the generators.