The hot barrel of the cannon burned her hands as she scrambled to swing it around.

(Every barrel of oil burned adds roughly a thousand pounds of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere.)

The barrels of the guns were burning hot from overfiring, but those courageous women who were helping in the fight kept on-exhausted, sweating, fearful.

Almost 100,000 barrels of crude oil spilled out and burned.

"That they fire with much rapidity and become so hot the barrel burns the hand that touches it," the gypsy said proudly.

Ignacio was pulling down hard on the tripod and the barrel was burning his back.

According to Kuwait's oil industry, up to 6m barrels of oil are burning every day, four times the country's pre-war production.

Household burn barrels receive limited oxygen, and thus burn at fairly low temperatures, producing not only dioxins, but a great deal of smoke and other pollutants.

But the barrels would burn slowly; she'd seen Sinclair make barrels like those; the staves were half an inch thick, watertight.

So the barrels would burn, but likely they wouldn't explode-or if they did, not all at once.