stamp out a fire

Did I truly command my regiment to stamp out a fire?

At the age of thirteen, he was severely burned trying to stamp out a fire in a barn, and lost a leg to amputation.

He is Richard Mannington Bowes, and was set upon as he tried to stamp out a fire during riots in Ealing, west London.

It is a question of such sensitivity that when it arose today, Norman Tebbit, the Conservative Party chairman, who joined Mrs. Thatcher at her news conference, reacted like a man trying to stamp out a fire on an expensive carpet.

THOMAS G. O'HAGAN On a Different Path When Thomas G. O'Hagan was 7, he tried to stamp out a fire in the Riverdale section of the Bronx, but his pants caught fire.