1.   If nothing else, every living soul breathed the air befouled by fire and smoke and ash and, yes, seared human flesh.

2.   This is, of course, especially important in Arizona, where polyester has been known to sear flesh in the summer months.

3.   After an explosion seared his flesh, Thomas Tiernan thought his abdomen and left hand would bear the type of scar he had once seen on a burn victim.

4.   And the heat reminds her of the day her trip to work ended in flash of light that seared her flesh.

5.   Elshani, a former construction worker, managed to dig himself out just as flames began to sear his flesh.

6.   He survived the blast, but the flesh had been seared from his back and he had been exposed to radiation.