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As homes, businesses and cars — and the products within them — were incinerated, gases, chemicals, asbestos and other toxic pollutants were released into the air, often settling into soil and dust.

As is typical, Dunthorne confronts gaps in the historical record — documents incinerated by bombs, removed by the Allies, even discarded by unsentimental relatives.

All of that was incinerated, along with the artificial tree.

The punishment for Multiples is to have each body incinerated and the original consciousness erased, thereby exterminating the person altogether.

A short time after evacuating their two-bedroom house on West Palm Street, their block was incinerated.