The fire was so big that American astronaut John Glenn could see it from space as he orbited Earth.
VOA: special.2009.03.22
"That's really the biggest issue. When there is really a big sudden fire, the time to evacuate is extremely limited and extremely dangerous.
VOA: standard.2009.06.24
If they do not, the paper warns, it risks becoming a meeting that issues "a traditional statement that will not help put out thebigfire, which awaits the region and whose effects no one will escape".
Volunteers can stay for a minimum of two weeks and a maximum of eight, and will need the hard work to burn off thebig, fire-side dinners, including game stroganoff and local stews served with millpap, a mashed potato-like maize.
Planes are flying over the scene, dropping water over thefire and still big plumes of smoke are hundreds of meters in the air ... tons of ambulances, firefighters.