1.   Still, Chestnut considered himself luckier than the people next door, whose house was now a blackened heap.

2.   A blackened heap of mangled coaches was still strewn near the tracks where the accident occurred, but only a few bodies were thought left in the debris.

3.   A blackened heap of mangled coaches was still strewn near the tracks where the crash occurred, but only a few bodies were thought left in the debris.

4.   Much of the center of the city was reduced to blackened heaps of smoldering ash, blackened bricks and twisted pieces of tin roofs.

5.   The arson attack late Sunday destroyed the Or Aviv temple, leaving it a blackened heap of wood and metal.

6.   The temple was left a blackened heap of wood and metal.