| But on Nick's first afternoon working alone in the book shop, a devastating earthquake strikes, followed by raging firestorms across the city. |
| The firestorms triggered by such nuclear volleys would produce millions of tons of smoke and soot, Turco notes. |
| Oxygen in the atmosphere will burn with this inbound debris and ignite superheated atmospheric firestorms that will consume much oxygen. |
| Radio warnings effectively mobilized fire brigades and civil defence workers but neither could control the firestorms which swept across northern Tokyo. |
| My grandfather vanished in one of the firestorms that raged in Tokyo during the American bombing campaigns. |
| Only one minute long, it killed 3,000 people and ignited firestorms that burned for three days, forever changing the face of the Bay Area. |
