Perhaps the fire will not burn or the rain will extinguish it, or the Abbot may relent.

Local residents were prepared to escape from the fire, but torrential rains extinguished it just before it reached Ahnapee.

This hole is not directly over the fire, lest the rain should extinguish it; and the smoke therefore naturally fills the place before it escapes.

On the fire of covetousness he will cause the cloud of his mercy to rise, so that the rain of the law may extinguish it.

The rains extinguished 80 percent of the 25 wildfires in northern Florida.

What flames there were, the torrential rain extinguished almost immediately.

One corner of the cabin was in ashes, but the heavy rain had probably extinguished the conflagration.

In August 1967, an exceptionally heavy rain extinguished the permanent flame.

A lightning bolt knocks him unconscious and rain extinguishes the flames.

Surely lightning started small fires all the time, and surely they burned long enough to put a fair amount of smoke into the air before the rain extinguished them.