This isn’t a controlled burn. They are using drip torches to set a backfire. A backfire is set along some type of fire break, in this case apparently a bulldozer path. But natural barriers can be used as well, like roads or bodies of water. As long as the intensity of the fire stays low like it is here, the fire is actually beneficial to the forest. It clears understory that can contribute to a larger fire, and the heat (400degrees is needed) opens the pitch pine cones to release seeds. As far as controlled or prescribed burns…they are set with a plan to burn themselves out at a preset location. It’s only when prescribed burns get out of control, either due to changing atmospheric conditions or poor planning, that they have to be extinguished. Then it’s just business as usual on any wildfire.
Here in Pennsylvania, there's a burn ban in place: no open fires or burning of leaves or trash, etc. Not even burn barrels are allowed, until further notice
@@bradmagnuson6963if this was a prescribed burn it would be labeled as so. This was a brush fire, someone started it cause it didn’t start itself. They used back burning to contain the main body of fire. That’s what you see in the video. The first in the beginning was the brush fire.
Can anyone tell me how they put these control burns out? Do they have like a predetermined space they've dug out already how does this work? And are the trees a concern?
@@73bubbie okay thanks man. Yeah so I figured that was a bad place to set a fire. I was thinking it didn't make much sense to me so that explains it I'm sure that was just part of the wildfire
@@Chris-of6xmusually if they are doing a controlled burn they will have a pre determined section of woods and mapped out .. before it's burned they will send the dozer in to make multiple plow lines that kinda subdivide the acreage they intend to burn into let's say 10 pieces ( just an example) on the day they are going to burn it ,they will send guys with torches down each plow line and they will light the side opposite of the wind so that the fire slowly burns toward the next trench . when it gets to the next plow line it's got no fuel on the ground left to burn .. if you were looking at it from the sky it would look kinda like a grid with multiple lines burning at the same time .. This is just a basic answer as every agency may do it a bit differently depending on the goal.. usually it's to burn the fuel on the ground and to keep the fire low on the trees but where trouble comes in is when the wind changes directions . When the fire starts burning in the tree tops with the wind you have problems.. Hope this helps !
