111.   In the lobby, the rescue effort was under way as firefighters arrived from the four corners of the city.

112.   A fire service spokesman said that when firefighters arrived, the building was burning on several floors at the same time, suggesting a criminal origin.

113.   Firefighters arrived at the scene and doused the flames as police cordoned off the area and an ambulance removed the injured to a hospital, witnesses said.

114.   Firefighters arrived quickly on the scene to put out a blaze within the house, said officials, and found one body near the entrance and four more upstairs.

115.   Firefighters finally arrived to rescue the man, whose dog had plunged through the ice.

116.   They escaped by scaling the prison walls before police and firefighters arrived, the reports added.

117.   Russian firefighters arrived on the scene promptly, but the fire had already been extinguished.

118.   The fire was still raging two hours after firefighters arrived at the scene, officials said.