21.   Another child, Chantal, was lost somewhere in the thick smoke and withering heat of the fire.

22.   A U.S. airplane equipped with infrared equipment will help cut through thick smoke to locate fires burning in isolated areas.

23.   After the bricks are dried in the sun, they are fired in nearby ovens that envelop the community in clouds of thick black smoke.

24.   Airports in much of the Amazon have been closed for at least part of every day because of the thick smoke.

25.   But it produced a noise that reverberated like thunder and spewed thick black smoke from the top of the building, Chief Edward Butler said.

26.   But once the flames ebbed and the thick black smoke cleared, only one victim proved to be badly injured.

27.   Buzzell said the other firefighters were able to leave through a front door where an engineer was shining a light through the thick smoke.

28.   Cathedral officials said it was unclear how much of the interior was damaged because the building was still filled with thick black smoke.

29.   Columns of thick smoke boiled out, and the air filled with fresh billows of ash and paper.

30.   Dozens of city and state roads have been closed, but even on some passable highways motorists drove with headlights on through thick smoke.