1.   Police say the fires could easily have spread to nearby houses.

2.   DuPont admitted no wrongdoing but has acknowledged that pollution on the site has spread to nearby neighborhoods, and a cleanup has been under way for years.

3.   The breast cancer study, for instance, looked at tumors only from young women whose cancers had not spread to nearby lymph nodes.

4.   They expressed concern that any war in Chechnya could quickly spread to nearby regions, none of which are politically stable.

5.   Over the following weeks, violence spread to nearby Leeds, Burnley and Bradford.

6.   Police and army troops surrounded the facility, while firefighters tried to contain the blaze and keep it from spreading to nearby buildings.

7.   Rashid suspects that charred logs dumped on the beach led to fires spreading to nearby Kulamba.

8.   A chemical plant explosion ignited a roaring fire Friday that spread to nearby buildings and sent flames and smoke billowing into the sky.

9.   An oil rig burst into flames Thursday, injuring three workers, one critically, and authorities feared the blaze might spread to nearby fuel tanks.

10.   An explosion Thursday caused a fire aboard an empty oil tanker, and the blaze spread to nearby ships at a private dockyard near Istanbul, reports said.