There are some big wildfires raging right now which are reported to be human caused or started in areas that were not pure forest elements.
These days, you are probably not going to find someone outright overtly committing an act of arson.
Also and important, the concept of fires merging, or the 'whoosh' effect of several fires coming together as one big fire alluded to in the previous post, see "military property in jeopardy...", is REAL; as one of the excerpts below shows as has already happened.
Here are quotes from within this week from Fairbanks [Alaska] Daily News at newsminer.com cut/copied/pasted from with font color changes added for easy readability:
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Thursday, June 28, 2012
Monday, June 18, 2012
Alaska Wildfires. Lightning Rods Might Be A Solution. Over 20 Fires Raging in Alaska Mainland Right Now.
Right now, 18th of June 2012, there are about 30 fires ranging in different sizes throughout the state of Alaska.
Reports are, all but one of them were started by lightning.
Question lies precluding making big investments into lightning rods, which is do they REALLY work, usually meaning, basing the answer to this question off of scientific experiments that used a control group as the method to determining whether or not they are proven to work; since the science experiments never proved they work, the idea of making heavy investments was tossed out.
Howbeit, lightning rods in places that have a history of common occurrences of lightning, also have a history of significantly reduced, if not altogether done away with lightning damage.
What it seems like Alaska needs, are some lightning rods around Fairbanks, Alaska, that are taller than the trees. Fairbanks had 3 fires started in a 3 day period earlier last week.
2 or 3 of the roughly 30 fires raging this month have been described and documented as a 'wildfire' by NIFC. These are larger ones. Smaller fires are still blazing. 20 or 30 fires all raging at the same time, although smaller in area per each, when added together, still account for combined square miles that are huge. Literally, about a third to a half of Alaska as we speak is up in flames.
Fairbanks is toward the very middle of the big portion of the state of Alaska.
Many acres that are the victim of fire have black spruce {tree}.
This the scene, using a 2010 picture, of fire racing through black spruce trees in Alaska, obviously there is not much room to play in there at all:
[picture courtesy httpmalg...tag=wildfire]
What kind of fire do you get when you combine lighting, in the Alaska region, with black spruce in Alaska, plus the other elements, such as air, climate?
Basically, lightning rods are supposed to work by a mechanism whereas the lightning seeks the rod, instead of something else, like your property, and then the electric charge of the lightning makes its way down the pole and discharges in the ground.
Fire names in Alaska as of June 2012:
Reports are, all but one of them were started by lightning.
Question lies precluding making big investments into lightning rods, which is do they REALLY work, usually meaning, basing the answer to this question off of scientific experiments that used a control group as the method to determining whether or not they are proven to work; since the science experiments never proved they work, the idea of making heavy investments was tossed out.
Howbeit, lightning rods in places that have a history of common occurrences of lightning, also have a history of significantly reduced, if not altogether done away with lightning damage.
What it seems like Alaska needs, are some lightning rods around Fairbanks, Alaska, that are taller than the trees. Fairbanks had 3 fires started in a 3 day period earlier last week.
2 or 3 of the roughly 30 fires raging this month have been described and documented as a 'wildfire' by NIFC. These are larger ones. Smaller fires are still blazing. 20 or 30 fires all raging at the same time, although smaller in area per each, when added together, still account for combined square miles that are huge. Literally, about a third to a half of Alaska as we speak is up in flames.
Fairbanks is toward the very middle of the big portion of the state of Alaska.
Many acres that are the victim of fire have black spruce {tree}.
This the scene, using a 2010 picture, of fire racing through black spruce trees in Alaska, obviously there is not much room to play in there at all:
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[picture courtesy httpmalg...tag=wildfire]
What kind of fire do you get when you combine lighting, in the Alaska region, with black spruce in Alaska, plus the other elements, such as air, climate?
Basically, lightning rods are supposed to work by a mechanism whereas the lightning seeks the rod, instead of something else, like your property, and then the electric charge of the lightning makes its way down the pole and discharges in the ground.
Fire names in Alaska as of June 2012:
- Kokrines Hills
- Nekakte
- Little Indian River
- Koguluktuk River
- Stink Creek
- Mentanontli River
- Deadwood Creek [mix of live fire and smoldering]
The list above is only some of the fires, they might be largest, and really fires, that are being tended to by firefighting.
Black spruce, does not mean that the whole tree, or the log part of the tree is actually black in color.
The tree is reminiscent of the fern tree.
Just because it can get cold in Alaska, does not mean that fire cannot exist in large volume out in the wilderness resulting from forces of nature.
A May 2012 newsminer.com, Fairbanks online paper article says fires can lead to smoke which leads to visibility of less than a quarter or a fourth of a mile, and prompting air quality warnings warnings.
The article also says, 6.6 million acres burned in Alaska fires in 2004,
last year in 2011, 515 fires burned 293,018 acres, the 3rd lowest annual total in the last decade; that about 20 miles long and 20 miles wide, if you were to heap all the fires together;
normally, about 1 million acres is covered by fire each year, mostly in interior of the state, that means the big part of Alaska and not the shoreline or the 'stretch of little bitty islands'.
A May 2012 newsminer.com, Fairbanks online paper article says fires can lead to smoke which leads to visibility of less than a quarter or a fourth of a mile, and prompting air quality warnings warnings.
The article also says, 6.6 million acres burned in Alaska fires in 2004,
last year in 2011, 515 fires burned 293,018 acres, the 3rd lowest annual total in the last decade; that about 20 miles long and 20 miles wide, if you were to heap all the fires together;
normally, about 1 million acres is covered by fire each year, mostly in interior of the state, that means the big part of Alaska and not the shoreline or the 'stretch of little bitty islands'.
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