Firefighters at the scene in Howard Beach put the flames under control at about 3:15 p.m.

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The authorities ordered the evacuation of the town's entire population, estimated at some 100, 000 people, as firefighters battled to bring the flames under control.

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Witness Amy Miller, a resident who was getting ready to work at a nearby cleaners, told CNN she saw the cockpit ejection and flames under the right wing as the jet descended.

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They encounter sudden combustion inside mock cabins, practicing ducking under flames to stay alive.

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Through a sidelight at the rear door he watched the flames race in the wind, flowing under his car and fanning out to light the corncrib, the smokehouse, and the big sagging barn, which went up in a howl of crackling lumber and dried-out hay.

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The flames, spectacularly reflected in the glass facade of an office building under construction across the street, died down only after crews were able to shut off the gas around 8 p.m.

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