BRUSH FIRE PUT OUT AFTER TWO HOURS.Byline: Jim Skeen Do you mean:
Fanned by stiff breezes, a fire burned more than 300 acres of brush Monday Monday: see week. afternoon near 90th Street East and Avenue Q. Three water-dropping helicopters and more than 100 firefighters battled the 1:09 p.m. blaze BLAZE - A single assignment language for parallel processing. ["The BLAZE Language: A Parallel Language for Scientific Programming", P. Mehrotra <mehrotra@csrd.uiuc.edu> et al, J Parallel Comp 5(3):339-361 (Nov 1987)]. , which burned toward 110th Street East, said Fire Inspector Henry Rodriguez Rodriguez or Rodrigues (rōdrē`gəs), island (1996 est. pop. 34,883), 42 sq mi (109 sq km), in the Indian Ocean, c.350 mi (560 km) E of Mauritius, of which it is a dependency. . Flames were fed by brush that grew during last winter's El Nino rainstorms, then dried out during the relatively mild winter that followed. ``The conditions are very dry,'' Rodriguez said. ``Everyone thinks we got a lot of rain lately, but that hasn't made a difference in the fuel.'' Also contributing to the fire were southwest winds of 25 mph, with gusts up to 35 mph. The fire was knocked down shortly after 3 p.m. No structures were damaged, officials said. The cause of the blaze is being investigated. |
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