The green anodes are delivered to in-ground baking furnaces, which consist of a series of refractory brick lined pits with hollow, surrounding interconnected flue walls.

Footage showed two gutted cars and a deep crater on a debris-strewn street lined by bare trees, and a red brick schoolhouse with its windows blown out and roof partly ripped off.

There are a few houses out front, and in back a partially underground room lined with Chambers containing brick ovens.