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Federal investigators are helping comb through the charred building for more victims and evidence.

Their pancakes are crazy with the char on the edges.

In a matter of months, they transformed the heaps of charred rubble into mostly vacant matchbox lots, ready for rebuilding.

To the north, a sickly orange haze hung along the horizon, a reminder of the inferno that had reduced parts of their school to a ragged tangle of charred masonry, metal and wood.

A fire broke out in prison, with the authorities finding a charred body that they thought was Bester's.