Post #340595 by VampiressRN on Fri, Oct 26, 2007 6:00 AM

On 2007-10-23 14:32, Suffering Bastard in Maine wrote:
while they have already indicated that at least one of the fires was arson, it's a relatively simple explanation. Wind.

The fires started when the wind picked up. wind carries things like cigarettes into areas that they normally wouldn't be and helps fan the flames.

Since the whole area was dry already, it didn't take much for the wind to make this happen.

This is one reason I hate it when people throw their cigarettes on the ground. The other key reasons are that I don't like my community treated like a garbage pile and it increases taxes to have to pay for the people who clean up after these people.

..sb

Oh don't get me started on butt-flinging idiots!!! I just hate that, people just don't realize the danger of such actions.

Yes the wind is part of the problem...it swirls around the canyons, same sort of pattern every year, then throw in an arsonist or two and the nightmare begins.