My neighbor fired up a pile of dry blackberry bushes yesterday. That
pile has been sitting there for 6 or 7 months all through the winter
but, when he set it off, within a minute or so you couldn't get within
15 feet of it. It was amazing how fast it burned. With a dry winter,
our forests and grasslands can be the same way.

John

RST Engineering wrote:
Shoot, Uncle John, I don't know how things are up north of us by you, but in
Northern California you couldn't light the grass on fire with a propane
torch and a tank full of gasoline.

83" of rain so far this year, and still pounding down.

Jim




"John Ammeter" wrote in message
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We have the same problem here at the Arlington Airfair... I drive a full
size truck so I'm not likely to cause a fire but any normal sedan, being
much lower, is quite likely to be able to catch the grass on fire. I
figure we've been lucky so far but can't count on that to last forever...

John