The conditions were just right for the perfect fire storm: a wet growing season, a dry winter, a high wind. It seems that hardly a windy day goes by that we don't hear about a huge grass fire somewhere in West Texas. (Perhaps today's moisture will provide an uneventful day for the firefighters.)
So what starts these fires? Electrical lines get blown down. Welders get careless. And cigarette smokers flick their lit butts onto the roadside and are long gone before the tobacco embers ignite the dry grass. Jonathan Gurwitz wrote a delightful opinion piece about the flick, that careless cigarette toss out the window.
Tired of reading? Here are some fire scene photos.
That one in the far right, above, is my favorite from this batch. There's something strangely alluring about random symmetry.
These photos were taken at the grass fire near I-20 and Odessa South Loop 338 on February 25, 2008. Read about it here.
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