1.   Hallways smelled of smoke and soot covered floors and walls.

2.   In the end, a fine black soot covered almost everything and soaked deep into concrete and walls.

3.   Soot still covered some patches of ground.

4.   Soot covered the Bibles sitting on chairs.

5.   The buildings, brick and wood, were covered by soot.

6.   They trudged out alone or in pairs, their hair and clothes covered by soot and their eyes glazed with a mix of exhaustion and despair.

7.   Black soot covered most of the living quarters of the two-floor wards, which were littered with charred mattresses.

8.   Soot covered every structure.

9.   Soot covered his face and arms.