Sentence examples for the fires started from inspiring English sources
When the fires started approaching, some had trouble reaching the local authorities.
Agent Fisher of the Border Patrol said 100 had been arrested since the fires started Sunday.
While it is not clear how all of the fires started or spread, it is possible that some of the destruction could have been inadvertent.
The fires started in the Namadgi ranges, a popular national park, and engulfed Canberra's south-western suburbs with frightening speed, stoked by drought, heat and searing winds.
Police confirmed that three patients had died, including two whose bodies remained in the charred ruins of a room where one of the fires started.
"We maintained our cool until the fires started and the vandalism started and people threw projectiles at police and others in the crowd," she said.
"Pretty much then, the firing started".
The fire started from lightning on Sunday.
How the fire started remained a mystery.
"The firing started getting intense last night.
