smoldering remains

Monday morning, a backhoe began tearing down what was left of the structure as firefighters sprayed water on the smoldering remains.

An emergency medical worker pouring mineral water from a bottle to douse the smoldering remains of charred bodies.

Bedfordshire Fire and Rescue Service said its crews were “monitoring the smoldering remains” on Wednesday morning.

Even with the smoldering remains of the dot-com era visible in the rearview mirror, the tech industry still fostered an air of opportunity, potential and self-reinvention — manifest destiny remade for 21st-century captains of industry, a new frontier without the pesky limitations of a finite continent.

Investigations traced the outbreak of the wildfire in April 2022 under extremely dry conditions to hidden, smoldering remains of a prescribed burn of forest debris commissioned by the Forest Service earlier in the winter.