flames
Example Sentences
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Despite firefighting efforts, strong winds are fanning flames and hampering containment operations - with local media reporting that firefighting aircraft have been unable to fly on Thursday morning.
From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2026
Interior Minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska said that firefighters aimed to stabilise and extinguish all the flames if possible on Wednesday.
From Barron's ● Jul. 29, 2026
Firefighters made some progress taming the flames, allowing several thousand people to return to their homes on Tuesday.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 2026
Their individual payloads of more than 1,000 gallons of water are then dumped onto the flames below.
From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2026
But the shack, which had moments ago been engulfed in flames, was suddenly not on fire at all.
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
