Forest Fire

A forest fire went past our campsite this afternoon. Maybe I should explain that it was a prescribed burn that was planned and controlled. As I have explained in a previous post, they do prescribed fire training here. One of the training teams did a burn across the road from our campsite today. It was interesting to watch.  They walk through and set the fire using drip torches.

The fire gradually spreads across the ground.

The roads around it are carefully watched with several of these units ready to put out fires if necessary.

This is taken from our campsite, the fire was right across the road.

After the fire, the area under the trees is much clearer and new grass will spring up in a few days.