Wild animals, in panic, run together before the flames.

Settlers and farmers with their families flee.
Many are overtaken in the mad flight and perish.

The fierce fires of this type can be stopped only by heavy rain, a change of wind, or by barriers which provide no fuel and thus choke out the flames.
Large fires are sometimes controlled by back-firing.

A back-fire is a second fire built and so directed as to run against the wind and toward the main fire.

When the two fires meet, both will go out on account of lack of fuel.