A small flame can turn into an out-of-control fire in less than 30 seconds.

Not a big, raging, out-of-control fire.

Have lots of water nearby and a shovel to smother an out-of-control fire with dirt.

On August 5, 1949, a firefighter named Wag Dodge survived an out-of-control fire in the Mann Gulch, in Montana.

Janet's eyes flamed like an out-of-control fire.

His voice barely sounded over the background noises of out-of-control fires and men calling and yelling, but all five of the running men stopped and turned toward him.

There was chaos in the streets, with lots of shouting and screaming, and here and there a thick plume of black smoke from an out-of-control fire.

He said many, perhaps most, of the blazes had started as out-of-control agricultural fires, set by peasant farmers who prepare their fields for planting by burning the previous year's stubble.

It will also recommend changes in how other high-rises are built to make them safer in a terrorist attack, an out-of-control fire or a natural disaster.

But he concedes, in the worst out-of-control fires, some of the efforts are more to show the public that something is being done even if it is hopeless.