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HiPSI
10-01-2005, 10:24 PM
when driving along I85 in an area that's been without any significant rain in several weeks, don't flip your lit cigarette out the window into the nice dry pine bushes

http://www.photodump.com/direct/esanford/fire2.jpg
http://www.photodump.com/direct/esanford/fire3.jpg
http://www.photodump.com/direct/esanford/fire4.jpg

this was our lunchtime entertainment today at turner field. went from a little smoke to a row of toasted bushes in only a couple minutes. those damn things burn quick and it was super hot even standing 50 feet away like we all were. luckily these bushes were land locked on all sides, but it may have gotten interesting if the big trees to the right had caught and sent flames up the bridge above ;). it basically burned itself out before the fire truck got there.

i saw walker there with his cam snapping away, so hopefully he'll have better pictures.
Cliff
10-01-2005, 10:27 PM
that has happened quite a few times around atl...i just wish the news would do a report and be like if you flicked your ciggarette out here today you're a moron
Spyder
10-01-2005, 10:29 PM
lol
Ruiner
10-01-2005, 10:35 PM
Smokey Bear...there is no "the" in there. :)
Spyder
10-01-2005, 10:48 PM
Smokey Bear...there is no "the" in there. :)

True story.

http://www.tvacres.com/adanimals_smokeybear.htm


Smokey Bear - Smokey Bear (never Smokey "the" Bear) first appeared in August 1944 in a poster drawn for the US Forest Service campaign by Albert Staehle. The original Smokey had large claws and a pointy snout. Later in 1946 Rudy Wendelin, a Kansas born illustrator made Smokey's image a bit friendlier by removing his claws, and rounding out his nose. The illustrated Smokey Bear became flesh and fur when the public fell in love with a fire-burned bear cub discovered in the aftermath of forest fire in Lincoln National Forest, New Mexico in 1950...
ISAtlanta300
10-03-2005, 03:13 PM
Damn smokers !!!!
Tracy
10-03-2005, 03:17 PM
I love smokey!
Jon00
10-03-2005, 03:29 PM
lol damn that sucks
HiPSI
10-03-2005, 03:54 PM
couple of better pics courtesy of codywellons.com... it appears a Nikon D70 takes better pics than a crappy sanyo camera phone ;)

http://www.codywellons.com/photos/SFS4/images/DSC_0137.jpg
http://www.codywellons.com/photos/SFS4/images/DSC_0139.jpg
http://www.codywellons.com/photos/SFS4/images/DSC_0147.jpg
Tiff-O-Bitties
10-03-2005, 04:15 PM
damn that's awful
Kevykev
10-03-2005, 04:23 PM
I call BS! Forest fires only happen in the FOREST.
Kristi
10-03-2005, 04:33 PM
that sucks, good thing it was contained easily since it was surrounded by cement
The Ren
10-03-2005, 04:40 PM
KRISTI YOUR SIGGY ROCKS!! HES DOING THE POKEY EYE
Tracy
10-03-2005, 04:54 PM
I call BS! Forest fires only happen in the FOREST.

It happened! I discovered it!!!!! I swear!!!
IndianStig
10-03-2005, 05:01 PM
it was ddante cul;pepoper




\i am tyuping with gl,,koveds give me bresak
HiPSI
10-03-2005, 06:10 PM
I call BS! Forest fires only happen in the FOREST.


coulda fooled me with this one
Kevykev
10-03-2005, 06:11 PM
ha!
ŁG2♣
10-03-2005, 06:14 PM
thats crazy
99ITRGIRL
10-03-2005, 06:31 PM
wow!! that was one ugly fire!!
Cliff
10-03-2005, 06:34 PM
how are fires ugly? are some fires pretty? like the ones with blue/purple/green flames?
Buford®
10-03-2005, 08:48 PM
Actually. The colour of those flames are beautiful. That's just me though.
Cliff
10-03-2005, 09:02 PM
fire is cool...just me?
CodyW
10-03-2005, 10:44 PM
i don't really like seeing them happen but it was kinda interesting taking those pics
Cliff
10-03-2005, 10:50 PM
if fires didn't destroy stuff they'd be great...it's amazing to do a controlled fire and watch the tiny flames just sweep across the ground clearing stuff out...fire is definately an awesome thing