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A flaming splinter from the burning plane had struck his backpack, singed his trousers and scorched his hand.

He walked down a side street, pointing out the singed remains of houses that he said were torched by Bedouins and government-linked fighters.

Where the aged tree’s limbs once exploded into violet, singed branches crisscrossed in colorless sterility like an unfinished painting.

A few hydrangeas were singed five feet from the walls of house, but the home was unscathed.

Twelve attendees — including an 82-year-old woman who lost her home in the fire — stretched out their mats on the green grass beneath a singed eucalyptus tree.