1.   As firefighters battled to save homes, the flames swept toward the Golden State Freeway, forcing the closure of some southbound lanes.

2.   Nearby, four Los Angeles city firefighters were injured when flames swept over their stalled truck.

3.   They were killed when flames from a kitchen fire in the apartment below swept through their apartment in Dyker Heights on Sunday.

4.   When flames swept up the staircase, tenants had to fling themselves and their children out of windows.

5.   A firefighter was killed Friday when wind-driven flames swept over a fire truck on the Wind River Reservation near Thermopolis, Wyo.

6.   Bilangan said the crew did not have time to use fire extinguishers because the flames swept through the vessel.

7.   Flames had swept through the small town earlier in the week, destroying an abandoned post office and other buildings.

8.   Flames swept through a three-story apartment building Thursday, killing two people, including a woman who jumped from the roof to escape.

9.   Flames swept through the two floors with speed and intensity that stunned witnesses and stymied firefighters.

10.   Like many others here, Lucy and Edgar Thomas lost nearly everything, salvaging only a few clothes and some jewelry when the flames swept through last May.