conflagration
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Brown has invoked the Emergency Conflagration Act for both the Double Creek and Sturgill fires, which authorizes the state fire marshal to mobilize firefighters and equipment to help local fire departments.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 9, 2022
The story conveyed by “The Conflagration of Moscow” was the least interesting thing about the show.
From New York Times • Nov. 3, 2016
Oregon’s governor invoked the state’s so-called Emergency Conflagration Act on Monday, mobilizing additional resources as a fast-growing wildfire threatened 275 homes in a rural area of the state.
From Reuters • Sep. 14, 2015
Gov. John Kitzhaber invoked the Emergency Conflagration Act so the state fire marshal can mobilize resources to protect homes.
From Washington Times • Sep. 20, 2014
Sanguine speculators in the L. R. E., and the Thames Conflagration Company, expect to draw both dividends on the same day.
From Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 460 Volume 18, New Series, October 23, 1852 by Chambers, Robert
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