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To: Red Badger

60 miles away and I can smell the burning plastic


9 posted on 04/12/2023 9:23:10 AM PDT by griswold3 (Truth, Beauty and Goodness ; Quos Deus vult perdere, prius dementat)
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To: griswold3
About forty minutes west of me in Manchester Township NJ there's a big fire raging in The Pine Barrens.

Happens fairly regularly here. Spontaneous combustion I guess.

What makes these fire so tough to put out is that the “Pines’’ are nearly 100% pine trees loaded with naturally occurring ‘’pitch pine’’, turpentine actually. Damn things go up like a Roman Candle. If you've ever seen that amber colored, gooey sap at the end of a 2x4 that's it. Put a match to it and *presto*! It goes right up.

13 posted on 04/12/2023 10:18:28 AM PDT by jmacusa (Liberals. Too stupid to be idiots. )
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