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nature's reset button, pressed with a single careless spark and a generous breeze
means A fast-moving fire that spreads through brush, grass, and undergrowth, often igniting easily and racing along on the wind.
from A transparent compound of "brush" — the low scrubby vegetation, from Old French "broce" meaning brushwood or thicket — plus "fire," from Old English "fȳr." The word names exactly what it describes: fire in the brush. It later leapt metaphorically into politics and diplomacy, where a "brushfire war" or "brushfire conflict" is a small flare-up that threatens to spread if no one stamps it out.
- speed
- can outrun a sprinting human downhill
- seed trick
- some plants only germinate after fire's heat
- own weather
- large fires spawn their own wind and clouds
- ancient ally
- Indigenous peoples burned land deliberately for millennia
- jumps gaps
- embers fly over a mile ahead
camp fire california 2018 — deadliest wildfire in california history, killed 85 people in butte county
dixie fire california 2021 — largest single wildfire in california history, burned 963,309 acres in northeastern california
thomas fire california 2017 — burned 440,762 acres in ventura and los angeles counties, destroyed 1,063 structures