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Colin Wells, RSPB site manager on the Dee Estuary Reserve, said conditions on the marsh were very brittle and dry, meaning the fire spread quickly.
BBC: Fire at Parkgate
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Moscow region governor Andrei Vorobyev told Russian state-television that the fire alarm seems to have worked but the fire spread too quickly.
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When the pyrotechnics were set off, the ceiling caught fire, state officials said, and the flames spread quickly.
CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS
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Seven oxygen cylinders being stored in the loft of a house caused the fire which quickly spread to three other properties in the terraced row.
BBC: Radford fire: Oxygen cylinders cause roof fire
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"There were shops selling chemicals on the ground floor, which were caught by the fire as it spread very quickly, " he told the AFP news agency.
BBC: Bangladeshi housing-block fire kills more than 100
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The fire had quickly spread to 10 other mats stored nearby, filling the building with acrid noxious smoke.
BBC: Teenager fire deaths accidental
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According to the Associated Press news agency, the fire spread quickly because construction workers had recently applied a flammable wood preservative to the exterior of the building.
BBC: Investigators have not yet disclosed the cause of the fire
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The fire is believed to have spread quickly due to dry and windy conditions.
BBC: Quad bike fire sparked Marsden Moor blaze, police say
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And a lot of the fast food restaurants are missing their employees because those rumors kind of spread very quickly, like fire.
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The fire started on the ground floor - which was reportedly used as a warehouse - and quickly spread through the building.
BBC: Dhaka Bangladesh clothes factory fire kills more than 100
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Silva added that firefighters and ambulances responded quickly after the fire broke out, but that it spread too fast inside the packed club for them to help.
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