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I’m not so sure flames could reach and maintain 1,000 feet high.

This comes pretty close: Video of Devil's Cigarette Lighter

Very true and very interesting video! Where is Red Adair when you need him? Most news helicopters operate at about 1,000 feet. The actually have an agreement among themselves to use a specific altitude so as to make it less work for the various pilots to keep an eye on them. Some are at 900, others at 1,100, etc. In the Ft. Worth footage the flames are not as high as the helicopter that's doing the shooting. The tops of the flames are well below the altitude of the helicopter. Of course this is all speculation on my part. The FAA might have imposed a TFR around the scene, forcing the coverage to be farther away and higher than usual. I know too it makes no big difference, I just though that flames reaching 1,000 feet are unlikely. In any event, I don't plan to take my tape measure and find out for myself! If you want to go take those measurements I'll wait here for you.

Classic use of the word “and” to make something seem worse than it is. The narrator says “flames and smoke reached nearly 800 feet in the air.” That could mean flames were 100 feet in the air and smoke was another 700 feet above that. No way to tell how high those flames were, as there was nothing in the footage for scale.