[grobdriver]

the damage is "irreparable and with consequences beyond what your eyes can see."

Color me stupid, but how does one burn stone?

[packagingguy]

They could always call someone with a pressure washer to clean off the soot. Had they never thought of that?

[jonrick46]

The journalist, who wrote the story, failed to say the stones were stained by soot from the fire. I wonder if the soot can be pressure washed?