Sorcha, fascinating, thansk for the details, esp. Have you ever seen Richard Dreyfuss in Always...a romantic version of it all, though the scenes where he flies the slurry bomber through the flames looks damn realistic. It's a good movie.

Anudder Mudder was telling me about a hot one in WA, recently, that a friend of theirs was working on. It is way out in some rugged boonies, darn near inaccessible to all. They did something like a 5,000 acre burn line to help stop it, to no avail. He said it was buring so hot that the wind it created went out in front of it and picked up live trees like matchsticks, throwing them back into the fire. He said they are just waiting for the first snowfall because that's the only way it will get put out.

Stay safe!

kat