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Then came another wait to dump their loads — an untold number of incinerated living room sets, teddy bears, running shoes and other detritus, spilling into a final resting place.

On Jan. 7, they were all incinerated, along with most of Palisades Charter Elementary School, by the Palisades fire.

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.