Squadron of Canadair CL-415 fighting fire in high winds

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Intense.

Some of those drops were maybe 75-100 yards upwind of the target and still drifted past the fire. In America, I think they cancel fire planes in high winds like these.

That long shot of the fire closing in on the radio shack looked like a pyroclastic flow, not a wildfire. Scary stuff.
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newtboyjokingly says...

You know I'm always good for obscure words and things.

Now to continue the volcanology lesson, lahar .
I'll save you the trip to Google, volcanic floods usually caused by glacial melt from the heat of eruptions, which makes a super abrasive slurry flood that's essentially wet concrete made of volcanic dust, pumice, and trees...and often people.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5x5tZAHEoRU

BSRsaid:

Thanks newt. Just when I think I know everything, YOU send me googling.

BSRsays...

Lahar is...people too?!

I thought https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2aH9tu4s30

newtboysaid:

You know I'm always good for obscure words and things.

Now to continue the volcanology lesson, lahar .
I'll save you the trip to Google, volcanic floods usually caused by glacial melt from the heat of eruptions, which makes a super abrasive slurry flood that's essentially wet concrete made of volcanic dust, pumice, and trees...and often people.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5x5tZAHEoRU

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