51.   Fire crews have been tackling a blaze at a company in the Old Station Yard at Bicester.

52.   Fire crews attending the incident were unable to get to the scene before the cloud developed, due to the five mile contraflow.

53.   Fire crews have been called to tackle a blaze tonight at house in Oxford.

54.   And in Tacoma, Wash., an all-women fire crew has been attracting attention.

55.   And it has been a rough summer for hotels without business from the fire crews.

56.   As Bill Brandau, operations section manager for the firefighting effort, addressed the fire crews Friday night, there was optimism, laced with reality.

57.   Before dawn Wednesday , they got a brief respite from the boredom and watched fire crews douse a raging fire in a house up the block.

58.   Buford Crites, a resident in Hemet for five years, spent the night helping the fire crews combat the approaching blaze.

59.   But it was one the fire crews lost.

60.   But the fire crew also realized they were standing in a pool of flammable water and began flushing the concrete carport with water, police said.