[pct-l] Fires

[marmot marmot]

I just don't think some of these hikers have enough outdoor experience to understand how a fire can spread. Even in a fire ring the fire can move. Every day there is enough wind to blow leaves and small pine branches into a fire. The fire makes its own drafts.  The burning leaves etc are lifted out of the fire ring. I have put out so many fires that campers have walked away from --thinking they were out. Other thruhikers have similar stories. The campers/hikers who started the forest fires didn't do it on purpose. Doesn't make the trees,animals and humans any less dead. 
Marmot

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