Last Thursday (6 March) was a windy red flag day in southern New Mexico.

A structure fire broke out in the village of Cloudcroft around sunset when the winds were easing up a bit.

But in these extremely dry conditions:

"Sources indicate that they contained several small spot fires ignited by flying embers. Officials say one ember start was put out a surprising distance away, at the junction of highways 244 and 82."

That was over 1/2 mile (800 meters) away, and the conditions were not extremely windy.

Please also note that the Gila will begin fire restrictions tomorrow, Monday, 10 March. This is another sign of how dry the conditions are in the southwest US.

https://www.cloudcroftreader.com/p/federal-review-could-reinstate-some (Scroll down to "Structure Fire Breaks Out...." for more info)

Title: Bonfire (1959)

Artist: Kasamatsu Shiro

https://www.nippon.com/en/news/yjj2025030500662/ #ShinHanga #SosakuHanga #Art #Showa #KasamatsuShiro #Winter #Wildfire #ForestFire #ClimateCrisis #Japan #Mood

The only thing you can do

Writing Poems in the Middle of a Catastrophe
Özge Lena

#Poetry #ÖzgeLena #Catastrophe #OneArtPoetry #Oleanders #Bees #ForestFire #Survival

https://oneartpoetry.com/2025/01/20/writing-poems-in-the-middle-of-a-catastrophe-by-ozge-lena/

"Some Liberal MPs are mounting a new effort to oust Justin Trudeau"
-CBC

MPs across Parliament Hill this week to sign a pledge demanding change at the top

.... a pledge to stand together in calling for Trudeau to resign, multiple sources said.

.... to secure a commitment from MPs to seek a leadership change, and to bind the MPs to that goal if the prime minister push back.

Lots of time for leadership convention.

LET's GO!

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/oust-trudeau-document-1.7350967

#Canada
#ForestFire #Climate #Build

You are the only one who can prevent forest fires. ~ Smokey the Bear

"Bolivia declares national emergency due to wildfires"

Climate warming is turning continents into kindling. Global warming from fossil fuels is drying our world forests.

Dry forests burn like matchbooks.

The Amazon is Burning, German forests dying of drought, Canada is burning, it is the 3rd or 4th worst forest fires in history.

Canada Alone is Over FIVE MILLION HECTARES so far, 2024.

https://www.dw.com/en/bolivia-declares-national-emergency-due-to-wildfires/video-70204105

#climate #oil #fossilFuels #CO2
#forestFire

More than 1/2 #Brazil racked by drought. Rio Madeira in #Amazonas locals r trekking miles on hot #sands of the dried riverbed in search of #water. In the Pantanal, the world’s largest tropical wetland, fires have scorched an estimated 20,000 square kilometers (7,720 square miles). Vast #Cerrado region is in grip of worst drought in 700 yrs. Air in São Paulo state so heavy w #forestfire #smoke authorities have urged people to avoid physical activity outside #climatecrisis https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/09/12/brazil-drought/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJyZWFzb24iOiJnaWZ0IiwibmJmIjoxNzI2MTEzNjAwLCJpc3MiOiJzdWJzY3JpcHRpb25zIiwiZXhwIjoxNzI3NDk1OTk5LCJpYXQiOjE3MjYxMTM2MDAsImp0aSI6IjFkMzE1NTYxLTJhOGYtNDRjOS04MTRlLWVlNzhmMjNkNzAzYyIsInVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lndhc2hpbmd0b25wb3N0LmNvbS93b3JsZC8yMDI0LzA5LzEyL2JyYXppbC1kcm91Z2h0LyJ9.izzpHTXHcX7AsI4vrw6AxG2QhogfGr1ZDXg6uAwW_Q0

The Freeman Creek Sequoia Grove.
This grove suffered damage from massive wildfires over the last 4 or 5 years. I was worried this grove had suffered severe damage but I was pleased to see that it fared much better than I expected. Although some giant trees were lost, much of the grove survived. It is amazing to see the burn scars on some of the trees and yet they withstood the intense fire. They are magnificent.
#sequoia #sequoiatrees #forest #ForestFire #nature #California

Arson. #wildfire #ca Suspect pushes burning car into gully, sparks massive Park Fire https://krcrtv.com/news/local/suspect-pushes-burning-car-into-gully-sparks-massive-park-fire
#chico #forestfire

Ottawa let wildfire fuel pile up in Jasper for decades
https://nationalpost.com/opinion/jamie-sarkonak-ottawa-let-wildfire-fuel-pile-up-in-jasper-for-decades

From 1646 to 1915, there's been a #ForestFire around #Jasper roughly every 15 years, but humans have suppressed fires there since then.

'“For a century the fuel has piled up and only in recent times have managers seen the danger and begun to change course by thinning the woods and defusing built up fuel with their own small fires,” wrote one article about the 2018 study.'

1/2

#CanPol #cdnpoli
#NationalPost

It's tragic when a forest fire destroys a town.

Whenever I see such stories, I wonder why we don't build houses in such locales out of masonry or concrete with steel roofs. I'm not an expert in these things, but surely we could make the buildings more resistant against fire.

Damn! A storm blew through last evening resulting in 7 forest fires - too close to home.
#ForestFire #Fire

On the Amtrak from Moorpark to San Diego. The skies to the west in Simi Valley are dark gray with forest fire smoke. Doesn’t make sense to me how all these fires are starting. Accidents, arson, carelessness. But so many all over? Gonna have to comb inciweb for info. Historically humans have not had to breath forest fire smoke year after year after year. It’s all too much. Hard to photograph so here’s an amazing vegan crab cake from Planta Cocina instead #ca #fires #forestfire #food #PlantBased

Thinking of Ruidoso, firefighters, first responders, pets, forest, and wildlife today. I hope the wind dies down, so they can establish a fire line. So far, no containment.

Watching firefighting planes dump pink foam onto a #ForestFire at the #TontoNationalForest. I hope that doesn't have #PFAS! Seems better to let a fire burn itself out (or better yet, do controlled burning every once in a while) rather than pollute the area. But maybe that's just me...

Woke up this morning coughing. I'd fallen asleep with the windows open. There's a thick layer of wildfire smoke over Winnipeg this morning. So that's starting early this year.

A #ForestFire waiting to happen

"Compared with the period from 1901 to 1960, cool season rainfall in the last two decades has dropped by 20%. Very wet years have almost completely disappeared.

About half of this change has been blamed on rising greenhouse gas #emissions, which could be an underestimate, according to one study led by Bureau of Meteorology scientists."

#WesternAustralia #eucalyptus
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/apr/20/western-australias-eucalypt-forests-fade-to-brown-as-century-old-giant-jarrahs-die-in-heat-and-drought