I used to fight wildfires with the Forest Service and have seen lots of types and sizes of trees go up. It's amazing how fast they go. Poof!

One summer I spent a couple of weeks laying out a thinning contract in about 200 acres that had been logged 15-20 years earlier. I bashed my way through it doing the stand survey, surveying to draw the map, drawing the map, doing much of the contract work, only to see the fool contractor burn half of it down because one of his workers didn't have a spark arrestor on his chain saw. When I was next out there everything was either burned or had lots of reddish brown smears and dots of borate. It doesn't take much to light those things and they go off like Roman candles.

SRS