Descriptions & Equivalents
- 5-alarm fire
- 50 mph winds fanned the flames
- about 50% contained
- billowing black smoke
- blaze erupted
- brush fire
- buildings were threatened
- burned to the ground
- burst into flames
- cause not yet determined
- crackling hot
- curtains went up in flames
- destroyed five beachfront homes
- firefighters quenched the flames
- fire gutted their two-story mountain home
- fire jumped the freeway
- fire ripped through the home
- firenado
- flashover conditions
- fueled by weeds and brush
- grease fire
- gusting winds sent embers raining down
- high temperature fire
- home completely incinerated
- hotspots
- incendiary devices
- inferno
- like a cauldron of hell
- lit up the sky
- massive flames
- molotov cocktail
- more than a thousand firefighters battled the blaze
- only charred appliances remained
- plume of black acrid smoke
- scorched earth
- several structures were damaged
- small trash fire
- smoke was thick
- tire fire
- wildfire out of control
- wind gusts blew burning embers into the night
