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Police said the man looked to be holding a smoldering cardboard box and “was acting erratic.”

How a 30-year-old singer, born in Argentina and raised in Spain, manages to channel the smoldering melodrama of Latin music’s golden era with such uncanny precision remains a bit of a mystery.

A thin, rusty coil of sun smoldered through a patch in the clouds.

He passed through residential neighborhoods, where flames still spewed from the severed gas lines of smoldering homes, and ash rained from the sky.

Six days earlier, on New Year’s Day, a small blaze had been extinguished there but might have left smoldering embers hidden in the undergrowth, the former chiefs said.