11.   With the gas fumes becoming overwhelming, with officers feeling that the entire street might be incinerated, they burst into the house.

12.   Police said the gas fumes, chloric acid and ammonium, were not toxic but could cause severe eye and throat irritation.

13.   A water heater may have ignited the gas fumes.

14.   Cars and buses remained frozen in a traffic jam while policemen wore surgical masks to escape the gas fumes.

15.   Officials said it is easier to fight the fire on the Italian side, because of the wind currents that are sending gas fumes toward the French side.

16.   Six young people trying to keep warm died by suffocation from gas stove fumes in northern Romania, a police official said Monday.

17.   When firefighters showed up and checked the upstairs apartment, they found the three bodies and the man and his daughter incapacitated by gas fumes.

18.   The windows of the car were tightly closed and the gas fumes appeared to have overcome them.

19.   The gas fumes suffocated him as he lay unconscious on the floor, they said.