21.   He originally told police the blaze started outside his second-floor apartment.

22.   He said that the blaze started in different places at the same time and speculated that some could have been started by arsonists.

23.   Investigators have found preliminary evidence that the blaze started when two teen-agers accidentally knocked over a can of gasoline behind the store.

24.   It did not say how the blaze started, although police say it was deliberately lit by an unknown group.

25.   No one was inside Clair Memorial United Methodist Church when the blaze started before daybreak.

26.   Some of the elderly who could not walk tried to crawl out of their tents when the blaze started and a few were left behind, witnesses said.

27.   The blaze started after midnight in the Marconi Beam squatter camp at Milnerton, outside Cape Town, and spread through the shacks within minutes.

28.   The blaze started in a coffee shop kitchen and quickly raced to the upper stories, fed by gas and flammable carpets.

29.   The blaze started in the narrow corridors of the building and quickly spread, enveloping the building in thick smoke and intense heat.

30.   The blaze started last week when a trash fire got out of control.