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Oregon fires burning underground pose new threat

you can put out a forest fire. go through winter's snow and come spring. the fires back

 

some quotes from an artilce about bc's ground fires

"You need a combination of very deep ground fuel — that means duff and litter and roots and buried logs — and then you need drought conditions," Gray told CBC.

"If you have that combination, then you have fires that can get into that deep, deep, dried organic material, and with just a little bit of oxygen they can hang on for years."

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I was out in western Washington for a few months and after having a fire pit for a couple of weeks we noticed the ground smoking about 20 ft away from our fire. We had to dig out the whole root to put it out. Luckily we had a dozen guys digging.

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