Replies to This Discussion

Permalink Reply by Daniel Scott Elsner on June 19, 2009 at 9:46am

We had a 35 acre grass fire yesterday, and were called out for a tree on fire that had been in the BLACK!!!!.

Permalink Reply by Alex on October 11, 2009 at 9:41am

we had a 20 acre woods fire started from a tree a farmer had cut down and burned..we arrived on scene toned NC forest service out.and toned our department's wildfire division out

Permalink Reply by Tony P on October 27, 2009 at 3:07am

Our wildfire season is just starting. I hope we get nothing at all - but that won't happen. There will be fires.

A tree fire started in the black? Common enough. How far into the black? Was it at risk of spreading the burnt area? If not, let it burn. If it was liable to cause ember problems, then it needs to be extinguished.

I've seen one old dead tree burning so hard that the flame was almost invisible, almost colourless. It was well inside the black so we left it while going on to another part of the fire - when we came back there was nothing left showing. Nothing.

Permalink Reply by DJ Easter on May 10, 2010 at 12:42pm

6000 acres of grass. Transformer sparked on a day with 20% RH and 45 MPH winds. Chased it for 4 hours until the rain put it out.

Permalink Reply by Tony P on May 19, 2010 at 9:52pm

Always nice when some rain heavy enough to do the job comes in!