R3cord303
Posse In Effect
Funny thing about that. What actually was happening was in the hills, the fire would spread from blowing embers from ridgetop to ridgetop. It would then burn the trees down to the roots, and the roots would start burning underground, and it would then burn UP the roots and up the trees and then blow embers somewhere else. Thats why it was so hard to get contained, so what they would do was take a dozer and rip a trench around one of the areas it pops up in, and flood the trench with water, and let the water soak into the ground and (hopefully) extinguish the roots.Fires almost out? I haven't heard much about them in awhile.
They are going to have to continue using infrared thru winter and into the spring to monitor the roots that are still burning to make sure they dont relight in the spring, because the on and off showers we get all winter keep it suppressed. When they go away, the fires may relight.
Oddly enough, my coworker's place got evac'd from the fires, they got a line established, they go to go back, the first heavy rain came, and then they had to be evac'd again because of landslide risk, because of all the trees that burned down that were holding the hillside together. Crazy stuff.