5/3/2003: Ohio wildfires

[xoxoxoBruce]

I wonder if they are trying to set backfires, or if they are just cutting firebreaks to try to control it.

Actually all they were doing is protecting the houses with water. The whole burn you see, from that light colored field in the upper left to the flames in the lower right, took way less than an hour. And that's with no wind. The area burning is a marsh/bog most of the year and has been inundated with a non-native plant, that I've forgotten the name of. Anyway they were hoping the native species that had been pushed out would comeback after the fire, so as long as it wasn't threatening houses, burn baby burn.