The Petit murders were cited by several opponents of the repeal, most vividly by Representative Al Adinolfi, a Republican from Cheshire, Hamden and Wallingford, who said he witnessed the chaos at the Petits' smoldering house that day.
She ran inside and told her mother, Diane, and they hurried up the street; that's when they saw the smoldering house and Cameron Todd Willingham standing on the front porch, wearing only a pair of jeans, his chest blackened with soot, his hair and eyelids singed.
The franchise is so patently, ridiculously awful that all the pregame huffing and puffing over Sprewell's return resembled rearranging the furniture in a smoldering house.
The B-side, "Message," is a smoldering tech-house burner decorated with icicle synth stabs and extended atmospheric pads.
Fire crews were hosing down the smoldering wrecks of houses, gas company crews were sealing off gas lines, police officers were on the lookout for looters.
Beautifully rendered images of couples kissing, a toreador, a gondolier, trapeze artists, divers, children rolling down a hill, a lady eating a drumstick while twirling around in her underwear, two slim fellows in a fistfight, and the smoldering ruins of a house flashed by in a palette from a box of Caran d'Ache cray pas.
'Black out' any smoldering material, check the house for any signs of smoke or fire at all.
They sometimes persuade homeowners to sign with them "while their house is still smoldering," said Kirk Hansen, director of claims for the Alliance of American Insurers, a trade group in Downers Grove, Ill.
The EP drags The/Das even deeper into house and techno stylings; Damage's fierce rework of "Have No Fear" contorts the original's bouncing momentum into snarling, rigid Berghain techno, and Uffe outfits "Colin" with a punchy house beat and smoldering low end.
"Oh, God -- that used to be a beautiful house," Ms. Goodkind said, passing the smoldering rubble of another neighbor's home.
A generation ago, tobacco companies were facing growing pressure to produce fire-safe cigarettes, because so many house fires started with smoldering cigarettes.
