August 28, 2007: Greece fires from space
 

http://cellar.org/2007/greecefires.jpg

Yeah yeah, I couldn't help but use the term "greece fires". Sue me. Spacecow first noticed these, and then dar512 posted a copy in our Quality Images area.

These are fires as seen from satellite, but the light red bits are actually circles of where the fires actually are. After a week of heat wave there are now over 200 fires during in Greece and other sections of southeastern Europe.

They have photos of some of these fires being set by arsonists, speculating they were hired by real estate developers. Tragic.

Nothing tougher to put out than a "greece" fire.

Guess they better pull Poseidon out of retirement.

Grease fire !!!!
Throw some flour on it !! ;)

and eggs

Actually they are celebrating weed smoking festival. Media is censored to prevent spreading to other countries.

that ain't greek fire. it's really someone's lunch puked up on their blue tablemat.

I just got back from Sicily and they have had the same problem. So they put a moratorium on developing burned forest land for 10 years. There is also a problem with people setting fires so they will be hired to plant more trees. <sigh>

Wouldn't Greece be "southeastern" Europe?

You are correct

Welcome to the Cellar, middy. :D

Were you going somewhere with that observation?

nice reference

Greece "fires" from space: Greece is located in space and is firing something. Like Eats, shoots, and leaves.

Aha. No, I edited.

OK. Dat 'splain it.

fi wah

Salt, man, SALT!! By throwing flour on a fire you could actually cause a fireball/explosion. We had a flour warehouse explosion two miles from my house years and years ago. It rattled our windows, leveled the building, and burned for four days. The cause? Flour in the air inside the warehouse, and a single spark. No one hurt though.

Grease and flour...hmm, gravy?

That's too bad. Probably prior to the explosion flour was selling like...er, hotcakes.

Old apartment buildings in Boston, all had small door in the wall of the hallway, on each floor.
The doors were a hopper that tipped out like a mailbox so you could put your trash in the hopper and when you close the door the trash would drop down a common chute to the incinerator.
When a woman found worms in a 5 pound bag of flour, she dropped it down the chute. The bag hit each hopper on the way down filling the whole chute with flour dust by the time it reached the flames in the incinerator.
The building was condemned and torn down.