LAGOS, Nigeria — More than 100 people were feared dead on Thursday after a construction vehicle struck an oil pipeline on the outskirts of Lagos, Nigeria's biggest city, setting off an oil-fed inferno that spread to surrounding homes and a school.
The Carr fire, which has destroyed countless homes in Redding and killed at least two people, is the latest inferno to spread from wildlands into urban areas, fueled by extreme heat and winds.
Video footage of the inferno quickly spread internationally on social media, while users of the Chinese microblogging service Sina Weibo posted photos of bloodied victims and apartments with the windows blown out.
The bus and Ms. Tomer's car were engulfed by flames as the rapidly spreading inferno was fanned by strong, unpredictable winds.
The School of Fine Art that was based in the Mackintosh building has put together what it calls a showcase for those of its students whose degree work was caught up in the fast spreading inferno.
On the night of the train wreck, Claude was safely beyond the reach of the spilling oil and spreading inferno.
But that night, Murray saw "the fires of Hell" as the riots spread from the south, "burning like Dante's inferno". And, as he recalled, "they were all coming north". Murray went back in and told Bradley.
But I worry that America's discussion is losing sight of the urgent need to quench the raging inferno before it worsens further and spreads to the dry tinder beyond Syria's borders.
Many questions remain about the fire, including how fireworks could have ignited such an inferno and why the flames seemed to spread unchecked through a modern tower, designed by a world-renowned architect, that would presumably have been outfitted with state-of-the-art fire retardant systems.
Disasters such as the one from "Inferno," as well as other natural pandemics, could spread globally.
