In the General/Chat forum, on a thread titled MORE EVIDENCE - 2 Miles from Lahaina Fire A Melted Car Surrounded by Gravel! D.E.W. or What? (IMAGES from video and video links), vpintheak wrote: This is conspiracy theory nonsense. Dry, hot, extremely windy. Sparks carry a long way. Dry grass burns easily. I’ve talked to people and woodland firefighters that tell me trees that have no fire near them will simply explode from the high heat nearby.
The car itself is in a gravel parking lot. Even if there had been a patch of grass beneath it there wouldn't be enough fuel to burn hot enough and evenly enough and long enough to burn the car to ashes. While trees may explode from the high heat near by, there was no high heat near this car as the closest is scrub grass in the pics.
"Hawaiian Electric Company said that power lines falling in high winds seem to have caused a fire during the early morning of August 8, but power lines in West Maui had been de-energized for more than six hours by the time a second afternoon fire began in the Lahaina area." CNN yesterdayIt need not be D.E.W. but the grassfire was not sufficient, or near enough to the car to toast it.
Alright then. Someone torched their car.
Wow, look at all the experts that showed up to debunk this. 🙄
Sometimes when that happens on FR, it’s often because you are very close to the truth. It happened with the vax (and a lot of those folks kind of skulked away into the shadows)
Many trees have adaptations that allow them to survive easier in natural fire. Jack pines and giant sequoias have very thick, fire resistant bark. Most eucalyptus species and pine species utilize tall crowns in order to keep flammable leaves and dead branches high from the ground and away from fire.
Trees in fire-prone areas develop thicker bark, in part, because thick bark does not catch fire or burn easily. It also protects the inside of the trunk, the living tissues that transport water and nutrients, from heat damage during high-frequency, low-intensity fires.
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I’ll add that the tress that are not burnt, a lot of them in peoples yards are more that likely irrigated and watered fairly regularly, so that would help as well. Fact is, not all trees burn in a forest fire. There are YouTube’s of people driving out west after fires and you can see the burnt trees and still live ones. Kinda like a tornado tears down one house and leaves the neighbors untouched. Gods will.