11.   Interior Minister Purachai Piemsomboon told reporters the blaze erupted after an explosion on a military truck while it was being loaded.

12.   Television reports said a Pakistani national leapt to his death from the fourth floor of the New Peninsula Hotel after the blaze erupted in a third story guest room.

13.   The blaze erupted late Friday afternoon at offices of the Center for Nuclear Studies in Fontenay-aux-Roses just west of Paris.

14.   The blaze erupted Saturday night and tore through four blocks of a downtown Lima district that was packed with holiday shoppers and street vendors.

15.   The blaze erupted Sunday just east of Truckee, Calif., amid the driest conditions in the Lake Tahoe area in more than half a century.

16.   The blaze erupted among wooden partitions in an unused lounge, burning parts of the room and bursting windows.

17.   Thousands of people fled their homes after the blaze erupted.

18.   Vidert said smoke billowed out the building shortly after the blaze erupted, a possible indication that the fire was electrical in origin.

19.   Vibert, the fire captain, said plumes of smoke billowed from the building shortly after the blaze erupted, a possible indication the fire was electrical in origin.

20.   He had told investigators that he was at a bar when the blaze erupted early Monday at the apartment.