21.   An elderly woman trying to save her apartment threw water from a plastic basin as flames licked apartments upstairs and next door.

22.   As he spoke, flames were still licking the walls of a school inside the base.

23.   Australian Broadcasting Corp. radio reported a lot full of parked cars had been destroyed when the flames licked at a nearby township.

24.   Flames licked from the windows of ground floor offices.

25.   Flames licked the OPON base while gray smoke poured out of a nearby rebel-held school, hit by heavy rounds which rocked the district.

26.   Flames licked through buildings and streets were deserted except for the occasional car loaded with civilians fleeing in panic.

27.   Flames were licking out of the upper rooms and across the entire roof, a photographer on the scene said.

28.   The main office building was a scorched and smoldering hulk, and orange flames licked one side of it.

29.   Flames licked at the doors but backpackers awoke only when windows started breaking.

30.   Passengers fled through emergency doors in just a couple of minutes as flames licked the aircraft, the witnesses said.