Your own safety is at stake when your neighbor's wall is ablaze.
I'd rather fight 100 structure fires than a wildfire. With a structure fire you know where your flames are, but in the woods it can move anywhere; it can come right up behind you.
Fire, as we have learned to our cost, has an insatiable hunger to be fed. It is a nonliving force that can even locomote itself.
Big fires flare up in a wind, but little ones are blown out unless they are carried in under cover.
One tiny flame could make so many other flames; one tiny flame could set afire a whole world.
A litle wind kindles; much puts out the fire.
Wind indeed increases fire, but custom love.
If you take 67 brush fires times 10 years, that's almost 700 right there. Those brush fires are incredibly dangerous, all those homes going down proved that.
Couldn't a fire outrun a galloping horse?
A miniature village in Bournemouth caught fire and the flames could be seen nearly three feet away.
It is difficult to determine the cause of grass fires. There is usually nothing left behind when we get there, like a cigarette or a gas can, for us to determine what started it.
It is known that wildfires behave unpredictably - this is fundamental - but it is my experience that humans in the presence of wildfire are also likely to behave in aberrant and unpredictable ways.
Wildfires are a result of temperature conditions, of soil moisture conditions; and, of course, something has to start it.
In open range fires it is about picking a spot and hoping it is the right location. At the head of the fire you have to worry about wind and humidity and a number of other factors.
The word was enough. It ran like fire along the line, from man to man, and rose into a shout, with which they sprang forward upon the enemy, now not 30 yards away.
