Wild Fire

[hobbydog]

It was the last night at the cabin after a 2 week stay. We were sitting around the fire enjoying a beverage and talking about the previous weeks hunt. It was very dark as there was no moon and it was cloudy. We noticed an ominous orange glow to the south of us. It could only be fire. Fire is common and controlled burns are often done on this part of the prairie. However the winds were gusting up to 20 mph out of the SE. We went for a drive to investigate. There were two separate fires...one on each of the 2 sections to the south of us. The furthest one to the south was in a recently logged out 80. The large brush piles were in full blaze. This was probably intentionally set. The other was on the west side of the section to the south of us. The SE winds meant it would probably stay away from us and we had a road between us but it was very dry and windy. Took these pics. The fire blowing through the woods at night is a pretty neat to see. The fire burned out during the night thanks it a light rain but it was pretty smokey. Here are some pics.

[Steve Foss]

Here's one of a hsolist-215 positioning itself for a drop at a burn east of Trout Lake by Lake Vermilion this summer. Bumpy ride in our spotter plane? Uh huh!

[Andrew Erickson]

Holy smokes! Thats insane!Those are some cool pics

[Dan Thiem]

Insane is right! The picture of the brush pile must have flames jumping 20 feet in the air! WOW!

How far back would a guy need to be to roast a marshmellow on that thing?

Thanks for posting.