They are ferocious eaters and rapidly engulf invaders coated with antibodies and complement, and damaged cells or cellular debris.

One person was killed last night and another badly injured when a young child set fire to a Christmas tree, rapidly engulfing a Queens apartment building in flames, the Fire Department said.

A fire, probably started by a discarded cigarette, rapidly engulfed an escalator on the London underground.

A popular New Jersey restaurant owner and his wife were killed by a fire that rapidly engulfed their home here over the weekend.

In addition, lawmakers merely postponed dealing with huge problems surrounding the alternative minimum tax, a parallel tax that was originally aimed at millionaires but is not adjusted for inflation and is rapidly engulfing more middle-class families.

He didn't want a heart attack; he wanted-wanted- Darkness from the east was rapidly engulfing an ice-green southwest while he brought in as much wood as he reckoned he'd need.

After some three hundred yards of travel, a fogbank mysteriously rolls in and rapidly engulfs the boat.

Leaf blight of the grasses On leaf tissue, symptoms of blight are the initial appearance of lesions which rapidly engulf surrounding tissue.

Shortly before midnight a fire broke out aboard, rapidly engulfing the ship, which burned down to the waterline before sinking with the loss of all 56 crew and passengers.

The fire started in the church about 5:30 a.m., rapidly engulfed the sanctuary and then spread to the parish house on one side of the church and to a three-story apartment building on the other side.