The Prescribed Fire JUMPED and We Burned Down two Old Buildings!! Video 4 of 4

This is the best video to watch in this series. It's where i highlight all of our mistakes that caused this fiasco. For the record, I have been working with prescribed fire since the mid 90s and never burned down a building until now! Maybe someone else can learn from our mistakes!

[@dwbowhunterable]

It's always a number of things that lead up. This is a great video. Thank you for posting. Had a similar story this year.

[@TheBrushcutter]

Ospho. Converts the rust to primer. There is also another type that has a clear acrylic that is better, it was called prep and prime or something like that. Lowes carried it back in the day but I haven't found it in a long time. Ospho had to be painted the other didn't if you didn't want to. I always painted it. Sucks about your animal getting away from you, it happened to my brothers and I, almost lost a barn at the turkey camp but managed to stop it before it got to the structure. Quite scary for a minute there. Exactly as you said, "always expect the unexpected". No words ever spoken about fire were more true! Lol

[@michaelcameron8855]

Thanks for sharing. Like the poster before said, it’s never one thing. It’s a series of decisions or events that escalate before you realize it.
One question I have, you mention wind direction in one of the videos and it sounds like you started firing on the upwind / and slightly downslope side of the block. Maybe I’m not understanding right though.
Obviously we all know fire runs uphill and walks downhill and I get why you secured your flanks quickly. Also wondering why you didn’t back it off both flanks first before lighting an upwind / downslope corner of the block?
Not trying to Monday-morning QB or rub salt in the wound, trying to think through how I would approach a similar situation.