21.   Commissioner Safir said that forensics specialists from the Federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms had pinpointed the place in the building where the fire began.

22.   Danforth said the tear gas canisters were fired four hours before the fire began and did not start the blaze.

23.   Fire officials were unable to confirm rumors that the fire began with an outdoor grill.

24.   Firefighters said the fire apparently began in the front of the home.

25.   Fire began to engulf the bridge where Miller was firing, and the men were ordered to leave.

26.   For a moment, after an old fire extinguisher fizzled and the grease fire began to consume her kitchen, Diane had scrambled to save things.

27.   For the first time since the fire began, firefighters had smiles from ear to ear.

28.   Gus Tellez, a full-time Forest Service firefighter from the Payson area, was one of the first to reach the Lone Pine Trailhead where the fire began Saturday.

29.   Hawkins said U.S. Forest Service investigators already have looked at the area several miles up in the hills where the fire began.

30.   Investigators said the fire began when burning plastic dropped to waste oil in the bilge, igniting it.