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"Even a small flame can rapidly develop into a major wildfire placing lives, homes, businesses and emergency responders at risk," the alert said.

From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026

Pershing Square CEO Bill Ackman, who stormed out of his Netflix investment a few years ago, has rekindled that old flame.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 13, 2026

Down the coast in Alicante, the monuments wait for their flame.

From Salon ● Aug. 11, 2026

In “Young Men and Fire” he vividly narrates how a wildfire the crew initially expected to control suddenly erupts into a “blowup,” a wall of flame racing uphill faster than the young men can run.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026

Then she took the lighter from her tool belt and held a flame under the branch’s knobby end until it was blazing.

From "The Wild Robot Escapes" by Peter Brown

Forest fires have also been reported in Croatia, Spain and Serbia since Friday, after a summer of extreme heat which has seen swathes of land across Europe either going up in flames or scorched brown.

From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026

“Just another day of watching Russia burn,” she wrote on Instagram this week, posting a photo of flames rising over a Siberian petrochemicals plant, to the soundtrack of The Prodigy’s “Firestarter.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026

Some 550 firefighters are in the battle against the flames near the eruption of another fire in July that covered 37 square kilometres of land.

From Barron's ● Aug. 15, 2026

Court documents show Rinderknecht tried to call 911 seconds after cameras firsts spotted the flames.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026

Glowing embers drifted through the air, and Morris’s flames were almost purple in the smoke.

From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz

In fact, what the race revealed were the weaknesses and limitations of an ineffective candidate who would have almost certainly flamed out in the general election.

From Salon ● Aug. 13, 2026

The 1988 presidential campaign of Alexander Haig, a former four-star general who served as Ronald Reagan’s first secretary of state, flamed out amid GOP infighting over the Iran–Contra affair.

From Slate ● Apr. 6, 2026

Iowa, which flamed out to No. 10 seed Virginia in the second round last week, could have simply been less prepared than other tournament teams.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 26, 2026

With Jones, a former first-round pick who flamed out with the New York Giants, Indianapolis’s success to start the season was downright historic.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 8, 2025

Ivy’s face flamed up as she finished packing, as June watched her get shipped off.

From "Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World" by Ashley Herring Blake

A woman testified that she saw Stout get out of the flaming car and push it over the dirt mound, where it rolled down the embankment and ignited the dry vegetation at the bottom.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 25, 2026

In U.S. television, there’s a tendency to open every piece of sports programming with a clash of cymbals and a rhinoceros jumping through a flaming hoop.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 23, 2026

To caption a video of flaming debris in January, he wrote, “Entertainment is guaranteed!” and, after the March explosion, he posted, “Rockets are hard.”

From Salon ● Jan. 12, 2026

It involves about 40 men and women parading up and down the High Street swinging flaming balls around their heads before the balls are thrown into the harbour.

From BBC ● Dec. 30, 2025

The air above the chasm turned into a fireworks show of flaming projectiles, exploding rocks, and fresh produce.

From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan