Wildlife camera photographs tree burning during forest fire
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- Опубликовано: 12 сен 2024
- During the September, 2018 Roosevelt Fire in the Bridger Teton National Forest in Wyoming Tom and Kitty Drean's wildlife camera was burned off the base of a tree and landed on the ground facing up. It captured in a series of still photos of multiple limbs on the tree burning at at time.
Not exactly the exploding tree I was lead to believe I would get to see.
Tell Billy to stop hitting the zoom controls, it's making the moon men dizzy.
We watched it. It appeared to be a fire in a cavity, but the bole of the tree remained intact throughout the video. A crown torching is not a tree exploding.
People have said that eucalyptus trees explode in fires. I'm not a firefighter, but I watched the Oakland Hills fire of 1991 from about a mile away, after dark, with binoculars. I saw a eucalyptus burn rapidly and dramatically, but I wouldn't call that an explosion. By rapidly and dramatically, I mean there was bright fire in the lower part of the tree. Then the bright flame moved up the tree (maybe 100 or 150 ft high) over maybe 15 or 30 seconds to get to the top of the tree. The bright flame continued for maybe a minute more, after which it had burned the leaves, loose bark, and small branches. Then there was a vast group of glowing embers that I could clearly see thru the binocs. The embers rose from the heat of the burning, then started to move sideways. I would have to expect some of those embers to fall once they had moved sideways, so they could ignite more fuels. A vivid demonstration of how wildfires can spread ("spotting").
Dang it Trump... You sent me down a rabbit hole again.
No explosion. I'll have to send in the request to Mythbusters now.
I agree with the first five comments. Unusual phenomenon, perhaps, but no explosion. I have seen trees go up like Roman Candles, but that's not "exploding." I especially second Moniak's post.
I have, however, seen the results (a pine blasted into 2x4's) of a lightning strike that could be called an "explosion," undoubtedly due to a flash of steam pressure. However, there was no fire.
The person responsible for the post may have had the best of intentions, but "nine-tenths of the hell being raised in the world is well-intentioned." If I wasn't so inclined to give the originator the benefit of the doubt, I would suggest its removal to prevent leading the public down the garden path, as it were. Intentional deception? I don't know.
What's the deal with the zoom effect? I can barely follow the image sequence. Just leave it be
Anyone else feel seasick?
Blame Ken Burns fans...
THAT is the "exploding tree video"? Riiiiiight.
This looks like garden-variety "flash-over" - the thing that occurs when the temperature of a fire gets so high that all flammable surfaces around it begin burning. All of us who have taken a fire safety course at school or at work have seen film of this phenomenon and how to keep ourselves safe from it. Explosions occur from within when many bits of matter come flying out of a container at high speeds. This did not happen here.
you know how they go boom on super rare occasion? trees can hollow out and the cavity can fill with water, this is when it start rotting from the inside out, to the eventual hole entrance the critters use for a home. it may be rare, but so is the million monkey theorem, and one day it will happen too.
All of the beautiful shots of Sequoia trees from just this angle. Poignant
The case of the doctored video of a flatulent tree.
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