Not much difference between burning hot lava and a raging forest fire.
Neither one leaves much behind.
“Not much difference between burning hot lava and a raging forest fire.”
Oregon had 1400 square miles burned in one week. 500,000 people had to evacuate.
You can flee in one direction to get way from a volcano, and you don’t have to go that far. A forest fire will not only surround you but skip ahead of you at the speed of the wind, often very high winds.
Sparks fly ahead of the fire and have jumped miles across the Columbia River.
We were threatened by a fire 20 miles away that could have been to us in 25 minutes.