1.   An acrid smoke wisped skyward from blackened houses, casting a thick haze over the new day.

2.   Blackened houses were stuffed with more bodies.

3.   He said charred trees and blackened houses were next to next to other houses with no damage.

4.   Burnt timbers littered the streets, blackened houses and apartment blocks lay empty and roofless.

5.   What they found were burnt timbers littering the streets, blackened houses and apartment blocks lying empty and roofless.