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On Friday, the wreckage was still scattered across the crash site, including the blackened wing of the plane, with large pieces of the aircraft stuck in buildings.

Four months later, the hills around his home are still blackened and toxic.

Unfortunately, the simplest way for fire victims to avoid this financial predicament is to hold their blackened lots until death while moving on to buy elsewhere.

Much of the Glen Rosa valley was left looking like a charred and blackened moonscape, with little sign of the years of work from the National Trust for Scotland, which is responsible for the area.

An image from Iran's Tasnim news agency on Sunday showed a helicopter flying through a sky blackened by smoke to drop water on the disaster-struck area, AFP reported.