[ought-six]

It shows how fickle fires can be: Utter damage, just piles of ash; and eight feet away a building is untouched, without so much as a smudge.

[left that other site]

Yep. makes you wonder.

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

Yep. Same with tornados.

[no-s]

> It shows how fickle fires can be: Utter damage, just piles of ash; and eight feet away a building is untouched

Watch this drone video - you can sort of understand why when you see how the flame front moves, it’s not a straight line but more like ripples. The flames follow the fuel, and occasionally embers alight in something flammable which flares up and starts a new front or burns out without joining the fire because there’s nothing downwind to set alight. I’ve seen grass fires do the same thing when the wind is gusty, little unburnt patches left behind because a wind shift made a backburn that shielded a little patch.

https://youtu.be/ffV5tmrrgMA?si=8mqEQ_EdO1T7XWpv