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It takes a fire-breathing religion to blunt the hatred and despair in "Go Tell It on the Mountain" (1953), the autobiographical coming-of-age novel that Baldwin wrote and rewrote for a decade, centering on the battle for the soul of young John Grimes, on the occasion of his fourteenth birthday, in a shouting and swaying Harlem storefront church.

"You could take a fire hose to this sand and you'd never flood it".

Meanwhile, Mervyn King didn't just rain on Brown's parade, he took a fire hose to it.

It took a fire at Oxford Circus station in November 1984 to extend that ban to all sub-surface areas on the Underground network.

In one case, plant workers are said to have broken through a security fence to take a fire truck to unit 1 so it could pump water to cool the reactor.

In 2004, emergency managers at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico advised employees to take a fire extinguisher course after twigs, leaves and weeds from rats' nests caused fires in two new trucks.

"It would take a fire to get rid of the forms," Collins retorted, but he told his staff to start destroying evidence, he later told IGI's outside investigators.

In 1911, it took a fire to wake us up.