Our whammy here is going to be bad, we had enough of a drought in 2011 that its finally killed billions of cedars. And cedars were and are everywhere. They are now dying/dead, falling over and contributing to the fuel. They burn hot and fast.
Once we get a bad enough fire to get away and into the brush, we are going to have an inferno like we've never seen. Usually the brush doesn't burn that great because of green/life/water/moisture... its the duff under that burns... until it gets all teh rest hot and dry enough.... IE slower than normal.
Not sure whats causing fast up there, but I know whats going to cause fast here.... I dread taht day.
The day in 2011 we were running grass trucks 45 mph plus across pastures trying to catch up to the head of the fire before it got away... it got away and what started around 2pm, by 10 pm had burned over 3000 acres... our largest county fire on record.
