If the floor had been soaked with a liquid accelerant and the fire had burned low, as the evidence suggested, Willingham could not have run out of the house the way he had described without badly burning his feet.

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Authorities also wondered how Willis could have escaped the house without burning his bare feet.

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Eclipse's top cruise speed is an impressive 370 knots at 33, 000 feet, burning 90 gallons per hour.

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But Armstrong's posting provided other useful information: He ran 7.2 miles at an average pace of 6:33 per mile while climbing 563 feet and burning 1, 164 calories.

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Hurst recalled that Vasquez and Fogg had considered it impossible for Willingham to have run down the burning hallway without scorching his bare feet.

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Although spring weather had come, the watchman still kept a fire burning in a tin pan to warm his feet and to give a center to the group that gathered there.

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An array of state and federal agencies are on the scene, skimming up oily water, installing thousands of feet of boom in an attempt to contain the oil, and burning off some of the slick.

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So at this point they just seem to be burning, if not out of control at this point, it looks like a fire maybe sort of 10 feet wide at this point on the second floor.

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