1. Fire had blackened the field. 2. All the inside surfaces were wood, the fire smoke had blackened them and the heat produced a rich resinous smell of burning pine. 3. And below, the fire was blackening the white steel crane. 4. Daylight revealed extensive damage, the heavy blue mirrored glass of the windows was smashed, some of the lower windows blackened by fire. 5. Inside the devastated camp, homes had been flattened by army bulldozers, walls blackened by fire and the streets chewed up by dozens of armored vehicles. 6. Many of the bodies, blackened by fire, remained at the smoldering scene for several hours. 7. The fire blackened the floors, walls and ceilings in the hallway and melted the glass peepholes in apartment doors. 8. The fire blackened hills and fields for miles around Hanford, scorching land in some cases to the banks of the Columbia and Yakima rivers. 9. A brief fire blackened part of the structure. 10. Bodies blackened by fire lay in the streets, along with burned-out furnishings and vehicles, shredded clothes and other personal belongings. |