A combination of an uncontrolled fire and the structural damage might have been able to bring the building down, some engineers said.
From the 1940s to the 1970s, the state assumed control of burning that prevented uncontrolled fires.
Thus, the agency's officials continue to maintain, fire, even the lamentably uncontrolled fire of 1988, is good for the park.
Unfortunately, there have been a number of times where these so called controlled fires end up being an uncontrolled fire.
In an uncontrolled fire oxygen is consumed as the fuel burns.
By 1972, several experts feared uncontrolled fires in Yellowstone.
It was destroyed in the mid-1950s by an uncontrolled fire.
Fire fighting services are provided in most developed areas to extinguish or contain uncontrolled fires.
The uncontrolled fires ultimately led to the progressive collapse of the structure.
Oak Park's last large uncontrolled fire was on October 8, 1982.