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A massive scorched branch sat atop much of the ashen rubble, crushing a mangled and melted computer monitor.

Possible toxins in the melted and ashen debris could also delay a return to the campus.

A slow, sad drive up the coast on Thursday revealed so much of that familiar territory reduced to ashen ruins.

Metal railings or a charred brick chimney were all that remained to distinguish the ashen piles.

As Jensen used a window screen to sift the safe’s ashen contents for diamonds and stones, his wife Dawn DaMart wandered the blackened foundation searching for tokens of the couple’s life before the Mountain fire.