Aug 16, 2010: Russia Burns

SPUCK · 08-16-2010, 06:06 AM

On a different note I find it hard to imagine a lettuce field burning. How? Lots of dirt and green wet plants why would it ever burn? Must be really crazy hot.

Reminds me of the Great Fire of 1910.
Wallace Washington.
Over 3,000 individual fires were burning the morning of Aug 20, 1910.

Hurricane force winds appeared and blew many of them into one giant walls of fire miles wide and over a 100ft tall.

"The fire turned trees and men into weird torches that exploded like Roman candles."

Whole towns were incinerated. Trains filled with evacuees made daring escapes across burning trestles to seek refuge in tunnels.

Entire fire squads were wiped out.

The fire was eventually put out by the winter rains and snow.

Immediately after the Great Fire the US Forest service budget was doubled so forest fires could be fought instead of left on their own.

08-16-2010, 06:06 AM	#3
SPUCK Professor Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 1,911	On a different note I find it hard to imagine a lettuce field burning. How? Lots of dirt and green wet plants why would it ever burn? Must be really crazy hot. Reminds me of the Great Fire of 1910. Wallace Washington. Over 3,000 individual fires were burning the morning of Aug 20, 1910. Hurricane force winds appeared and blew many of them into one giant walls of fire miles wide and over a 100ft tall. "The fire turned trees and men into weird torches that exploded like Roman candles." Whole towns were incinerated. Trains filled with evacuees made daring escapes across burning trestles to seek refuge in tunnels. Entire fire squads were wiped out. The fire was eventually put out by the winter rains and snow. Immediately after the Great Fire the US Forest service budget was doubled so forest fires could be fought instead of left on their own.

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