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Instead, gray gravel has been poured onto the ground where homes and businesses used to stand, to keep the potentially hazardous dust tamped down.

Scraps of flame broke out here and there but were quickly tamped down by neighbors.

Last month’s CNN interview was one such instance where she appeared too controlled, too tamped down.

Others quickly tamped down the idea, but it was a foreshadowing.

Now he gathered a heap of soft grass and, with stone and stick for hammer and chisel, tamped it into all the crevices to prevent leakage.