She found herself moving into it, each step a relief from the drunken voices, the flaming moths of paper spun from the fire, the sear of the flames.
He was two miles from the epicentre of the blast, in a rain of flaming scraps of paper and clothes.
He had been waiting in the tower lobby for an elevator when the first plane hit, and fled as the sky rained glass, metal and flaming bits of paper.
Pieces of paper descended from the sky, burning correspondence and invoices and flaming meteors of toilet paper ejected from the site of the plant during the large explosion.
And with a hand mirror extended into the incinerator shaft, you could see the garbage on fire 100 feet below, particularly rewarding if you had set the fire yourself with a flaming waxed paper milk carton.
A gust of wind blew the flaming toilet paper into the yard, igniting the grass and then the house itself.
The first of its kind gathering, which by the way required no police, had a few flaming toilet paper rolls and a couple of yogurt filled balloons thrown at the government building.
SETTING THINGS ON FIRE -- Each spring, students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology haul a steer into a dorm courtyard, put it on a spit and light a fire under it with a flaming roll of toilet paper lowered from the roof.
At the University of Okoboji, the highest honor is to be a cheerleader, allowed to carry the torch (a pole with a flaming roll of toilet paper) to light the pile of hundreds of Christmas trees at the Winter Games extravaganza Saturday night (this year, the bonfire was on land rather than on the lake, and it was hot).
Ryan Williams, 25, is accused of walking into neighbor Keith Egenlauf's unlocked house in a Pittsburgh suburb on Oct. 18 and throwing a flaming roll of toilet paper onto a couch, starting the fatal blaze.
