1.   As Latex Foam executives walked the factory site Tuesday, the charred ruins brought to mind fire a quarter-century ago.

2.   At the end of a side street stood the charred ruins of a house, also burned during the night.

3.   A few blocks north, the charred ruins of the World Trade Center looked like the ribs of some cathedral or coliseum of fallen greatness against the evening sky.

4.   A specially trained police dog found more evidence of accelerants Tuesday in the charred ruins of a church fire that killed three area firefighters.

5.   A year after he returned from Macedonia, the houses remain charred ruins, their blackened roof timbers poking into the sky, weeds growing in the living rooms.

6.   Close by, a conference center built by the Soviets is a charred ruin.

7.   Even after the fires were put out, many visitors stayed away, thinking the area was in charred ruins, business owners say.

8.   For pure photographic thrills, however, nothing in the show matches the many crisp and sensual wet-plate images of charred ruins.

9.   From Zvornik, the patrol wound through the Lukovina Valley, passing ghostly villages where every house was reduced to charred ruins.

10.   Now it is a charred ruin.