Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: "Carlos E.R." Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,alt.comp.os.windows-11 Subject: Underground fires Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2025 22:28:38 +0100 Lines: 32 Message-ID: <6lsg1mxg46.ln2@Telcontar.valinor> References: <106mke5$1di32$1@dont-email.me> <10h4eqq$3khj5$1@dont-email.me> <10h4l1m$3mik2$1@dont-email.me> <10h9gr2$tuo4$1@dont-email.me> <10hb0cd$1a5kd$1@dont-email.me> <10hbkqn$1di3b$21@dont-email.me> <10hbo42$1fjnp$7@dont-email.me> <10hjfof$3ukif$1@dont-email.me> <10hjkgl$lr0$1@dont-email.me> <6rs81mx8nk.ln2@Telcontar.valinor> <7a9e1mx6ep.ln2@Telcontar.valinor> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net VF6nLLWL2hlEoGwZnEh0Twaly3aamIRiHrBBVN0yIB7iSByG9y X-Orig-Path: Telcontar.valinor!not-for-mail Cancel-Lock: sha1:s8hZdFpRujC3ungepIX3qaah3+U= sha256:HtqgLnFv+v9+CG4nwuAkRZ9ctgNff180y8sfEDzckWY= User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Content-Language: es-ES, en-CA In-Reply-To: Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:79524 alt.comp.os.windows-11:28714 On 2025-12-19 03:01, rbowman wrote: > On Thu, 18 Dec 2025 22:46:15 +0100, Carlos E.R. wrote: > > >> I have not heard of root fire in my country. Peat fire going on for many >> months, yes. Rekindling a forest fire, yes. Crews remain around for some >> time after the fire is put out. > > https://thebulletin.org/2021/03/underground-zombie-peat-fires-release-100- > times-the-carbon-of-wildfires/ > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centralia_mine_fire Let me see if I understood. The city set fire to a garbage dump filling the huge hole of an old open air mine, and the fire propagated to the mine, which happened to be a coal mine? Ow. > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurel_Run_mine_fire Wow. > > Possibly some of the cause is the ponderosa pines are large trees but have > very shallow roots so some oxygen is available. In the 2003 fire there was > no rekindling since there was nothing left to burn. -- Cheers, Carlos. ES🇪🇸, EU🇪🇺;