Sentence examples for triggering a fire from inspiring English sources

To do so would be like triggering a fire alarm, and we would be sent to the quarantine center".

Investigators believe the strip gashed a tire on the supersonic jet, causing huge chunks of rubber to smash through the Concorde's fuel tanks and triggering a fire.

In the winter of 1835, a gas pipe burst at the corner of Pearl and Beaver Streets, triggering a fire that swept through seventeen blocks of lower Manhattan and consumed more than six hundred buildings.

Since the disaster on July 25, speculation has largely focused on the possibility that a tire suffered a blowout and debris from it or a wheel sliced through fuel lines or fuel tanks, triggering a fire.

A woman working at a financial services company died Thursday night after accidentally locking herself in a vault and triggering a fire extinguishing system that filled the chamber with carbon dioxide, the police said yesterday.

The cause of the fire, and how long it burned inside Mr. Dembowitz's apartment before spreading into the hallway and triggering a fire alarm that notified emergency workers, is still under investigation, said First Assistant Prosecutor Guy Gregory of Hudson County.

In February, a fireworks display celebrating the Lunar New Year triggered a fire that destroyed a 720-foot-tall five-star hotel in Shenyang, a northeast China metropolis.

So after a short circuit triggered a fire in the shop, Paris seemed to come together in an unusual display of solidarity.

The two women may have saved lives, according to Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal, when even as they were shot at, they managed to trigger a fire alarm.

Officers responded to the Loews Vanderbilt Hotel at 2am on Sunday after a drunken man identified as the 26-year-old triggered a fire alarm, forcing the hotel to evacuate all guests.

Nottingham Forest manager Stuart Pearce has insisted the club's transfer embargo will not trigger a "fire sale" of players.