fell After the devastating forest fires in California, in which at least 84 people were killed and thousands of homes burned, have been circulating on the Internet of conspiracy theories, according to which the burned homes to be intentionally with laser weapons has been destroyed. Triggers for this include pictures of the affected regions, which completely burned down the building, next to which is almost intact, slip the end of the trees.
The houses had been targeted from the air, by ship, aircraft, or drone, or from the mountains down with the lasers, fire a shot, assume a User in social media. Therefore, the trees were not burned in addition, also low, as it should have been, apparently, must in the view of the conspiracy theorists in a “real” forest fire to be the case. Optionally, the Laser should have been carried out-attacks by the US government, terrorists, the iluminaten order, or Aliens.
houses often better fuel than trees
The actual explanation for the phenomenon is, however, significantly less spectacular. In simple terms, is this: most of the homes destroyed were made of wood. The wood of the houses was dry, the trees are wet around them. Dry wood burns, wet wood.
A little more precisely, the biologist David Peterson from the US Department of agriculture has the backgrounds already after the California forest fires last year described. To start a fire, you need three ingredients: a fuel that ?majbet is dry enough to burn, the weather is hot, dry and windy, and of course a source of ignition, Peterson said, according to the website Science Alert. Houses could be in many ways a much better fuel than than the surrounding Green.
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“the trees are full with water, therefore you are wet. And that is why many burning them – because your in the water the stored heat capacity is too high to burn in fact,” – quoted by Science Alert the scientists. “Large strains and large trees, not burn out in the woods normally would, except directly to the outside. It takes an enormous amount of heat over a long period of time to burn right through a stem.” In addition, it is much more likely that the flying sparks would impact on the roof of a house, and inflamed, as that you would be blown through the Branches of a tree.
California is in need of fire safer homes
With the fires in California, it was not about to fire rollers, the whole tracts of land completely rolled over, but a variety of specific fires that were ignited by Wind-driven glowing pieces of wood, such as the canadian broadcasting company, CBC reported. “So the whole area can burn at the same time” – quoted by CBC, the forestry scientist Jack Cohen. And this is also the reason why the photos from the affected municipalities give the impression that there had been hundreds of individual houses fires and not a fire that had swept through the entire place. to make
Single-building fire-resistant could be to evaluation of Cohen, the crucial measure to prevent the spread of forest fires in California.
source: Science Alert, “Sacramento Bee”, CBC
