To: SaxxonWoods; greeneyes; bigbob
Yes, I wondered about that too. I saw the photo. Starting a fire in a median between two firebreaks (pavement) is dumb. Start it on one shoulder with the wind blowing away from the road and you’ve got something.
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Couple thoughts. Grass and brush burns very hot, flames can easily be 10 feet high. If there is wind, sparks and embers fly distances and could easily ignite the sides of the freeway. Also, the article said they caught him when he was still there and brush was on fire. He may have been about to light in other places, who knows.
672 posted on
09/10/2020 3:51:42 PM PDT by
little jeremiah
(Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.)
To: All
680 posted on
09/10/2020 4:03:58 PM PDT by
Miss Didi
("After all...tomorrow is another day." Scarlett O'Hara, Gone with the Wind)
To: little jeremiah
By the way, fires started by lightning often start 3-4 days after the lightning strike. They sit there smoldering in/on the ground, building up slowly until a gust of wind gets the into some fuel and away they go.
This may not apply at all to your current situation of course. Best wishes and prayers by the way.
735 posted on
09/10/2020 5:07:33 PM PDT by
SaxxonWoods
(Prediction: G. Maxwell will surprise everyone by not dying anytime soon.)
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