great fire
City-destroying inferno event
A great fire is a large, destructive conflagration, typically one that devastates a significant area of a city or region.
The phrase often appears with a definite article to name specific historical disasters: the Great Fire of London (1666), the Great Fire of Rome (64 AD).
These events are remembered for reshaping urban landscapes and building codes.
- infernoDevastating, uncontrollable blaze
- blazeIntense burning fire
- conflagrationLarge destructive blaze
- flamesVisible burning combustion
- LondonEngland's capital city
burned to the ground · 1666 · ashes · up in smoke · destruction · smoke · devastation · burning · Chicago · spread · wildfire · ruin · charred · catastrophe · wooden · plague · rebuild · rising from ashes
- New York historyEllis Island, Tammany Hall, Erie Canal, Brooklyn Bridge, Central Park
- catastrophesdisasters, disaster, natural disasters, catastrophe, apocalypse
great firegreat flood
Massive overflow of water
deluge · inundation · tidal wave · monsoon · downpour
great firedeep freeze
Intense prolonged cold
ice age · glaciation · permafrost · frozen wasteland · arctic cold
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