From May 31 to June 1, 1921, fires burned more than 1, 000 residences in 35 city blocks.
In 2011, when wildfires raged across much of Texas, 35, 574 fires burned 4.7 million acres, according to the agency.
In Port Said, the other city with a stake in the court case, small fires burned in the harbor.
The fires burned near the docking area of the Carnival Triumph, he added.
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Overnight, fires burned through the interiors of luxury cars in Berlin, a more frequent occurance after the massive riots in London highlighted a widespread unease across Europe.
Fires burned through many areas.
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Too many cattle feed upon the grass and too many fires have burned it.
In May 2002 FEMA concluded that the building collapsed because intense fires had burned for hours, fed by thousands of gallons of diesel stored in the building.
On 16 April, 1947, a fire on a ship loaded with ammonium nitrate set off a series of explosions in the port of Texas City, and fires that burned for days.
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In 1995, forest fires in Canada burned more than 17 million acres, an area half the size of Florida.
So far in 2012, the agency has tracked 28, 420 fires that have burned nearly 2.2 million acres, the agency said.
Although the fire season got off to an early start in the West, the number of fires and acreage burned nationwide is still below the 10-year average for this time of year.
It's a bad sign for cattle ranchers in Nebraska and Wyoming, who are assessing the damage and facing difficult business decisions in the aftermath of lightning-sparked fires which rapidly burned across 70, 000 acres of dry grasslands.
In some cases, as the vehicles burned, the fires spread to the adjacent structures.
Several fires smaller than 200 acres burned in Sonoma, Glenn and Butte counties.
No one has died so far this time, but more than 150 houses and 500, 000 hectares (1.2m acres) of land have been burned in 66 fires across New South Wales.
In California, a pair of fires north of San Francisco in Lake County burned 7, 000 acres and were 30% contained Tuesday, according to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection.
According to the NOAA, June of 2012 had one of the lowest numbers of wildfires of any June in the past couple of decades, though a few large fires pushed up the total number of acres burned.
Mr. TERRY PEACH (Agriculture Secretary, Oklahoma): We actually had a pretty good spring as far as hay production, but as this drought continues and then as the tremendous fires over the entire state have not only burned up pastures that our ranchers have now, it's burned up much of our hay piles that farmers had stored for their winter hay needs for their cattle operation.
Mosquitia is far away, but in the latest fires some 70% of the pine forests around Tegucigalpa have burned.
Indeed, even as profits sagged and Amazon burned through its cash, the company sold an estimated 6 million Kindle Fires in the fourth quarter alone.
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These long strings cascade through the pathways burned into the silicon until they find a match, and then the HotShot fires out a simplified instruction to the microprocessor.
Several timber backdrops at the range were partially or completely burned, but because the facility sits in wetlands next to a lagoon, the fires weren't a threat to Naval Base Ventura County at Point Mugu, said spokeswoman Kimberly Gearhart.
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