1.   The nose dipped further, and the flame suddenly raced along the wings and around the cockpit.

2.   By the time they got out of the car, the flames had raced through the house.

3.   Flames raced through the crisp ground and across the tops of pine trees in the foothills north and south of Denver when the fires started on Monday.

4.   In most fires, the flames race upslope.

5.   Wide-eyed, we sat and stared as yellow flames raced up a wall and across a ceiling.

6.   As flames raced up tree trunks and through tinder-dry ground cover, enormous plumes of gray and white smoke billowed over mountain ridges.

7.   At another apartment complex on Djuro Salaj street, flames raced across the roof of the five-story building.

8.   Flames raced through five contaminated, deserted Ukrainian villages in the Chernobyl zone for seven hours Tuesday.

9.   Flames raced through five villages near the Chernobyl nuclear plant for several hours Tuesday, sending an unknown amount of radioactive particles into the atmosphere, officials said.

10.   Flames raced through the three- and four-story buildings as firefighters and volunteers dragged people from the burning structures.