The retort will hum for about two hours, reducing the human body inside to a few pounds of gray-white ash. The Lansdale Crematory has ... where Lakjer parks his blue Honda Civic and a long ...

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Was this guy working 24-7?" The Remick & Gendron Funeral Home and Crematory in Hampton, also using two retort ovens, handles an estimated 500 cremations annually, according to apprentice funeral ...

Placing more than one body in a retort oven is not illegal in New Hampshire. Reams and state police have been investigating Bayview since shutting down the crematory on Feb. 23. Felony charges ...

The first human body reduced to ashes in the now Mount Olivet Crematory, at Fresh Pond, Long Island, was disposed of yesterday. There was nothing in the entire proceeding that approached the usual ...

“It’s the cleanest way to go,” she said. The cremation chamber, called a retort, emits such low levels of chemicals they’re exempted from regulation by the Environmental Protection Agency.

The photos also showed a large hole in the bottom of the crematory retort — the actual chamber where cremations take place. The Associated Press went to the crematorium March 27 and found what ...

Piedmont Crematory places the tag outside the unit as the body is slid into the retort. Members of the Buddhist and Hindu faiths attend the cremation and slide the body into the retort themselves ...

a memorial service right now. It's convenient." • The retort, the machine that executes the cremation, is heated to between 1,500 to 1,800 degrees Fahrenheit. Jackson Crematory Services has two ...