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From: Cursitor Doom <cd@notformail.com>
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Subject: Re: OT: Typical Globlist
Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2025 10:52:18 +0000
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On Sun, 19 Jan 2025 16:45:34 -0800, john larkin <JL@gct.com> wrote:

>On Sun, 19 Jan 2025 22:18:15 +0000, Cursitor Doom <cd@notformail.com>
>wrote:
>
>>On Sun, 19 Jan 2025 16:36:08 -0500, bitrex <user@example.net> wrote:
>>
>>>On 1/19/2025 4:49 AM, Liz Tuddenham wrote:
>>>> Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> [...]
>>>>> The proposition that radiant heat generated by one burning would set off
>>>>> an adjacent house is pretty dumb. Fire codes are written to make sure
>>>>> that houses aren't vulnerable in that way.
>>>> 
>>>> In that case, what spread the fire?
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>
>>>Embers can fly up to 20 km depending on fuel and weather conditions, and 
>>>during high winds fire breaks are useless.
>>>
>>>Observe embers from this doorbell cam: 
>>><https://www.instagram.com/abc7marccr/reel/DEny6FGSX1f/>
>
>Those little sparks should not set houses on fire. 
>
>>
>>I don't doubt embers could have spread the original fires. What's
>>puzzling is how the hell could they have got massive and out of
>>control in the first place.
>
>No puzzle: dry wind and lots of fuel.

In that picture you posted, there were substantial patches of unharmed
vegitation right among the ashes of countless buildings. It doesn't
make sense.