The tower, with only few small windows, was the perfect environment for a major conflagration.
That is a sign of a major conflagration.
Small fires burned and smoldered everywhere, but had not yet joined to build a major conflagration.
At other times, however, he expressed doubt that this would happen - at least not before one, last, major conflagration.
Bird Dog, you hit one full fuel tank and we're talking a major conflagration on the flight deck.
The town's fire services were never adequate to deal with major conflagrations as classical sources well remind us.
Some 1500 fires were started, including three major conflagrations; consequently causing a firestorm.
Sometimes one had to nurse a tiny spark for a while before it burst into a major conflagration.
On the contrary, some now threaten to turn into major conflagrations, and new regions are beginning to smolder.
The risk of a major conflagration was already colossal, and they were successful, at the time, in damping things down.