61.   Fire officials also worried about smoke plumes building in the southern area of the fire, near Cibecue, and in the western portion of the blaze.

62.   Fire officials are now just hoping they can find enough qualified bodies to fight fires on public lands.

63.   Fire officials at the scene said that as the fire grew, she staggered into the hallway, moaning and crying for help.

64.   Fire officials could not immediately confirm that fires had been a problem in the area.

65.   Fire officials declined comment Monday on the lawsuit.

66.   Fire officials do not expect that an exodus would ever approach that scale.

67.   Fire officials emphasized the ambulances were all of the lower-priority Basic Life Support type and will respond to lower-level medical problems.

68.   Fire officials had anticipated that they would bring the fire under control by the early hours of Tuesday morning.

69.   Fire officials have not been able to determine the cause of the first fire, but say the second was deliberately set.

70.   Fire officials have said that working sprinklers might have saved the firefighters, who were engulfed by flames as they struggled to save a tenant on the top floor.