31.   ITAR-Tass said some of the boys who escaped the flames improvised a ladder from a nearby fence and managed to save some of the students upstairs.

32.   Katherine Neville, who denies setting the fire, said she leaped from her window to escape the flames.

33.   Many of the dead were packed into hotel bathrooms after apparently trying to escape the flames and smoke at the Manor Hotel in Quezon City, they said.

34.   Most of the large animals were herded to safety, but officials fear that many young birds were unable to escape the flames, Dobson said.

35.   She fled to the roof, and her neighbor extended a plank from his own roof so she could escape the flames.

36.   Several panicked passengers reportedly threw themselves out of the train to escape the flames.

37.   She fled to the roof, and her neighbor extended a plank from his roof so she could escape the flames.

38.   Teen-aged party-goers jumped from the windows to escape the flames, reports said.

39.   Some were burned to death on the bus, while others were killed as they jumped out to escape the flames.

40.   The fire is believed to have spread from a staircase of the three-story building, forcing several people to jump out of windows to escape the flames.