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Re:Forest Service officials close all California national fo... by klodolph on Tuesday August 31, 2021 @12:01AM (#28363843)
That’s right. Most people have not ever seen large-scale fires and don’t know how powerful they are. As a fire grows larger, it grows in intensity and spreads faster.

A campfire needs tending or it goes out. A bonfire will just burn until it runs out of fuel. A house fire will quickly turn into an inferno. Forest fires are hopefully like nothing you’ve ever seen—the sheer power of them is staggering.

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Re:Forest Service officials close all California national fo... by jdavis703 on Tuesday August 31, 2021 @12:05AM (#28363872)
I’ve been in small wildfires before. But yesterday I saw the Caldor fire from a plane… And the shear size of it was shocking. Photos and news clips don’t do the scale justice.
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Re:Forest Service officials close all California national fo... by DoreenMichele on Tuesday August 31, 2021 @12:04AM (#28363858)
A very recent (Oregon) fire was so bad it was creating its own weather system.

"Normally the weather predicts what the fire will do. In this case, the fire is predicting what the weather will do."

https://www.salon.com/2021/07/20/an-oregon-wildfire-is-so-in...

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