1.   The heater was left on all night and it scorched the wall.

2.   It also scorched a wall of an adjacent house.

3.   Over time, the heater could overheat, burning or scorching the wall or nearby furnishing, Willhoite said.

4.   The flames scorched stairwell walls like a blowtorch and blew out a door at the top with explosive force, officials said.

5.   The exterior walls are scorched by fire, and so pocked by bullets that it almost seems the holes are part of some planned abstract design.

6.   Rockets came through two windows of his corner office, decapitating Zibri and scorching the walls.

7.   The back wall is scorched black where firebombs have sailed over the barrier, and small stones litter the tiny yard.

8.   The blast broke two windows and gouged out brick and plaster, leaving a hole and scorching the wall.