Defence works were established to the east of the Yanmen Pass, with a line of fortifications and beacon fires stretching from Pingcheng County (present-day Datong) through the valley of the Sanggan River to Dai County, Shanxi.
A line of fire stretched almost unbroken along a 16-mile front some nine miles from the southern suburbs of Sydney.
Kuril Islands The 32 Kuril Islands, with their live volcanoes, make up part of the Pacific's ring of fire, stretching across the Bering Sea between the Kamchatka Peninsula of Russia and Japan.
Frequently, such devastating earthquakes occur along the so-called "Pacific Ring of Fire", stretching from New Zealand, along the eastern edge of Asia north across the Aleutian Islands of Alaska and south along the coast of North and South America.
Portugal struggled to contain a string of forest fires that stretched the length of the country, devouring thousands of acres and leading the government to call for help from the European Union.
The fires have stretched resources to the breaking point as some 20,000 civilian firefighters have struggled for months to control the flames and have been assisted by military battalions and crews from Canada and Mexico.
By the early morning, protesters lit a fire that stretched across the path, fuelling the blaze with rolled carpets.
As we watched the gorillas in the zoo's Great Ape House, Calaya lay on her back atop a thin fire hose stretched high between tree limbs.
The middle failed to hold and the Red Bulls on Sunday failed to end a winless streak at the Chicago Fire that stretches back to 2005, when the club was known as the MetroStars.
About 7pm Dr McIlroy and I went into the town and walked up to the city walls; there below us was a belt of leaping, roaring fire that stretched almost from one end of the town to the other, and right across the middle part of it above the Rue Egnatia.
