Thursday, March 5, 2009

Fighting Fire with Fire

Sometimes, the situation is so potentially dangerous with grass and forest fires (especially if they get out beyond where they have already burned) that the best and safest thing to do is to set another fire burning back toward the fire line that is coming at you. That is exactly what we had to do with several dozen acres of woods on fire the other day.

Here are a few shots from my Blackberry once the fire line that we had started began burning in towards the fire line that is deeper in the forest (you can't see the other fire line for all the smoke):

From Photo Blog 2009


From Photo Blog 2009


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From Photo Blog 2009

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