When it was all over 12 hours later, they said, about 150 people were dead, and even one month later, this once-thriving town of 35,000 is a burned out, empty shell of blackened houses and charred vehicles.
In this work, heat integration studies are performed to a biomass power plant that burns empty fruit bunches (EFB) as fuel.
Vast sections of Darfur, a region the size of France, have been burned and emptied.
Three decades have passed since Gregory Orr published his strange and quirkily inward first book, "Burning the Empty Nests," and joined the ranks of what was then called, often derisively, the neo-surrealist school.
They burned in the empty waiting room.
In one case, a woman was found burned on an empty patch of grass.
Another resident of Hurriya said militiamen burned down the empty home of a former member of the Baath Party.
In Nodine Hill, a hilly neighborhood of old two-family homes, frequent fires left empty, burned out lots, giving the area a look of a jaw with knocked-out teeth.
Layers of ashes seem to show that the roofing, probably made out of the Dead Sea reeds, had eventually been burned, and the empty mold left by the trunk of a palm suggests that it was used as a beam or for some kind of central support.
Just like the "boiled out" pot on the stove, concealed or covered-up anger can eventually leave you feeling empty, burned out and able to accomplish little.
