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Somehow, the three slats across the back were untouched by flames that melted steel beams and cookware.

He also used fencing slats and metal poles "as weapons against officers" and was seen "smashing up" an air conditioning unit outside the hotel.

Through the slatted wall, volunteers provide them with clothes, medical supplies and snacks — even free WiFi and an electrical strip to charge their phones.

The only relief came from irregularly spaced wooden slats drilled into the rock that provided desperately needed footholds.

When they reached the FARM, Sydney was looking at a Stevenson screen, a wooden box with slats that sat on a pole like an oversize birdhouse and held weather instruments.