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 activist reported plumes of black smoke rising over the town and continuous army fire from ground and air attacks.
The kitchen is still black with smoke and contains the original bread oven and soup hearth.
Eyewitnesses said the airport is now covered in dense black smoke following the explosions and emergency services are struggling to cope with the enormous numbers of casualties.
But the first reference to the different meanings of white or black smoke occurred at the 1903 conclave.
The footage showed parts of the town engulfed in black smoke, as explosions and gunfire are heard in the background.
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.
"This country is going to turn into a war zone, " said Elisha Kayugira, who ran through the Kibera shantytown searching for his sister as columns of black smoke curled above the maze of shacks and winding dirt roads.
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.
Black smoke filled the sky as fires raged for nearly two hours and frantic Iraqis shouted out for their loved ones.
They were firing off missiles, and also we're told a mortar platoon from further back in the rear was firing off 8-millimeter mortars, and those impacted in a number of buildings behind us, setting them on fire and sending plumes of black smoke into the air.
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