In Colorado, the U.S. Forest Service planned to take advantage of the snow to burn piles of dead trees on federal land.

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For instance, the process to increase burn and wound healing includes removing the dead or decaying flesh in a way that leaves a smooth, evenly thick surface for grafts and healing.

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Then again, not only doe sThoros not burn people, he also raises people from the dead.

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Some patients become destructive, he says, describing a mother who watched her son shot dead on the street and who then went on to burn down her own home and that of her neighbours.

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It said it found burn marks on a makeshift power switchboard and a 15cm (six-inch) dead animal nearby.

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