He says as he was driving away he saw the black smoke from the fire.
"All the black smoke has stopped now but there is a lot of white smoke just coming up, " he said.
Crowds who had braved rain and storms to watch the start of the conclave on big screens in St Peter's Square cheered as the black smoke appeared.
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Former firefighter Henry Lambie, who was working as a passenger assistant in Glasgow, told the court black smoke had quickly filled the building after the Jeep crashed into its doors.
Nicholas Schofield said that in the event of an inconclusive ballot, wet straw had traditionally been added to the fire to make the smoke black.
The Army, ever-secretive and rightly mistrustful of other government agencies, had not informed the governor, the mayor, the state police, the municipal police, or the federal police of its plans, so Guadalajarans huddled in their homes and workplaces, phoning and e-mailing one another, waiting in vain for advisories or information from the government as the sky filled with black smoke and the city rang with sirens.
"The primary reason they went for the black and white smoke was because there was confusion in the crowds as to what was going on, " Baumgartner explained.
More than 700 wells were destroyed, choking the skies with black smoke in an inferno that raged for eight months before firefighters eventually extinguished the blaze.
As the crash site belched black smoke, residents ran toward the apartments but then ran away when subsequent explosions frightened them, eyewitnesses said.
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If the ballot is inconclusive, black smoke rises from the Sistine Chapel.
The kitchen is still black with smoke and contains the original bread oven and soup hearth.
But the first reference to the different meanings of white or black smoke occurred at the 1903 conclave.
When voting fails to produce the two-thirds majority required for a new pontiff, the smoke is black.
Ambulances were at the crash site, and thick black smoke was pouring from the wreckage, the AFP news agency reported.
In the case of John XXIII, the smoke went from black to white to a sort of grey color and back to white again, Ridley recalled.
Our correspondent, who went to Tizi Ouzou, said streets were deserted and the air was thick with black smoke from burning tyres set ablaze by the protesters.
Security bars blocked most of the white building's windows, which were marked by black smoke in the late morning.
Security bars blocked most of the white building's windows, which were marked by black smoke in the late morning, hours after firefighters put out the flames.
The ballots are burned by the scrutineers with the assistance of the secretary of the conclave and the master of ceremonies, who adds special chemicals to make the smoke white or black.
According to Vatican lore, the smoke is black (due to the fact that the ballots were mixed with damp hay) when a decision is still to be reached and white when a new pope has been decided.
Minutes after she left her bedroom on the lower level and went upstairs, the smoke alarm went off and she saw "thick black smoke" coming from downstairs.
Then, in the pre-dawn hours of Sunday, it turned into a scene of indescribable horror as sparks lit a fire in the soundproofing material above the stage, churning out black, toxic smoke as flames raced through the former beer warehouse, killing 231 people.
Firetrucks could be seen dousing flames, while thick black smoke engulfed the devastated area.
Midway through the turn a missile trailing black smoke smacked into its side.
The closer they got to Poway, the thick cloud of smoke turned the sky as dark as pitch black night.
They say that the Red Cliffs, the cliffs that give their name to both the famous battle and the John Woo movie are still charred black to this day because of smoke from the burning fleet.
He accused the firefighters of deliberately staying downwind of the fire, from which pungent black smoke billowed.
As black smoke billowed over the highway in front of him, Berti held his breath and drove through it.
Black smoke billowed from the flaming taxi, amid popping sounds from the fire.
Black smoke rose from the chapel's smokestack, signifying no choice had been made, and the cardinals adjourned for the day.
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