Conflagration

A small forest fire can easily spread and quickly become a great conflagration.

A small forest fire quickly spread and became a huge conflagration.

The department of Legal Medicine Research is trying to ascertain the cause of today's conflagration.

A tiny spark may become a great conflagration.

He spake, and nearer through the city came / the roar, the crackle and the fiery glow / of conflagration, rolling floods of flame.

The conflagration consumed the city.

The conflagration, abetted by fuel that residents stored in their domiciles, razed tin-roofed shacks.

It took sixty firefighters to put out the conflagration.

And back to hell his way did he take, / For the Devil thought by a slight mistake / It was general conflagration.

This was well brought out in the skillfully conducted campaigns by the various governments in appealing to the masses with their characteristic suggestible subconsciousness, stirring to the very depths the reflex consciousness of gregarious man by all sorts of direct and indirect suggestions of fear of attacks and patriotic reactions of self-defence against such attacks until the evil genie of self-preservation and fear became loose, resulting in a sweeping conflagration of a war of nations with all the horror of diseases, mutilation, and extermination of millions of human lives, over seventeen and a half millions, according to latest accounts, having perished in this world-massacre of the human race.