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08-05-2003, 12:48 PM
A forest fire at its ferocious worst can outrun any man, reach temperatures as high as 800 degrees C and feed voraciously on fuel, oxygen and heat, says a University of B.C. expert on the subject. A forest fire needs three things to get going, says Michael Feller, an associate professor of forest sciences: heat, wind and an unstable atmosphere. In short, exactly the conditions currently present in much of southern B.C. At their fastest and most dangerous, they can travel up to 50 kilometres an hour, Feller says, and be as hot as 800 degrees C at their cores.
Source: Vancouver Sun... (http://www.firehall.com/cgi-bin/refer?url=http://www.canada.com/search/story.aspx?id=3b993274-3a57-44cd-a068-a8399a7c573f&s=86172128.778799&linkid=99&parent=news)
Source: Vancouver Sun... (http://www.firehall.com/cgi-bin/refer?url=http://www.canada.com/search/story.aspx?id=3b993274-3a57-44cd-a068-a8399a7c573f&s=86172128.778799&linkid=99&parent=news)