Fire trucks and ambulances raced through Baghdad to put out fires and collect the wounded.
Scattered around the complex are the bronze vats that contained the water kept on hand to put out fires.
"I don't think we have ever had as intensive and difficult to put out fires this late in the breeding season, " she said.
The president has spent the past week trying to put out fires sparked after his administration appeared to hedge on support for the public option.
According to Popular Mechanics, the robots are only being used to put out fires involving Acetylene gas, which had previously simply been left to burn themselves out due to the risk of explosions.
But Mr Van der Stoel's mandate precludes him from seeking to put out fires that have already started burning, so minorities such as Kurds in Turkey, Basques in Spain and Catholics in Northern Ireland are off his beat.
We have seen houses, offices and shops raided and torched, police officers assaulted and fire crews attacked as they try to put out fires, people robbing others while they lie injured and bleeding in the street, and even three innocent people being deliberately run over and killed in Birmingham.
Some of these people do what we expect of them: They run for office, pass legislation, start a business, get hired or fired, commit a crime, make an arrest, get in accidents, hit a home run, overthrow a government, fight wars, sue an opponent, put out fires, prepare for hurricanes, and cavort with people other than their spouses.
The chemicals produce oxygen that makes it harder to put out the fires once they start.
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Benedict is a teaching pope, a man who prefers the life of the mind to the nuts and bolts of government, yet an enormous share of his time and energy has been consumed trying to put out internal fires.
And no, firing the firefighter is never the best way to put out and prevent fires.
Although their job is to put fires out rather than start them, they will have to light the building afire in order to practice on it.
Malaysia was to work out ways to combat the fires, Singapore was to monitor them and Indonesia to improve its fire-fighting capacity to put the fires out.
As firefighters put out the last of the fires the next day, eyewitnesses described scores of corpses scattered nearby still clutching buckets and containers.
Ye Htut, a spokesman for President Thein Sein, said on his official Facebook page that the fires were put out around midnight after burning for several hours.
We are all besieged by unending phone calls, meetings, e-mails and text messages, with questions to answer, concerns to address, problems to solve and fires to put out big issues and small, planned sessions and surprises.
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As I reported with my colleague, Nathan Vardi, back in March, Selig had two major, debt-fueled fires to put out on each coast, one with the New York Mets and the other with the Dodgers.
It has long been known that lithium batteries are more susceptible than conventional nickel-cadmium batteries to extreme, uncontrolled temperature increases and fires that are very different to put out.
As firefighters in Eber worked into the night to put out blazes still smouldering beneath the rubble, men stood round fires to keep warm, while women, children and the elderly packed into cars covered with blankets.
Small fires were started at the Grade II-listed pub but put out without anyone being hurt.
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