Hiking into a fire in the Sierras. Not media. The new growth, with at least a half a century of root system supporting it, grew an astonishing 25 feet the first year or two. “… when trees fall down… about 18 months later…they become very dry…they just explode.”. Chris added that while the oils secreted by eucalyptus trees are highly flammable, one particular study from 2012, published in the International Journal of Forestry Research, showed little difference in fire risk between pines and Eucalyptus in southern USA. Or a golf course and a hotel, if so inclined. Thanks for that, I hadn’t seen that. Will a post-burn analysis be done? And the Eucalyptus trees are bombs that are primed to go off during the fire season. I am not discounting the fact that, in extreme conditions, standing trees have indeed had occasion to detonate explosively. I agree with Dick Rothermel’s explanation. What could happen after the front has passed and the fire continues to burn if fuels are available is anybody guess.”. Many times I have been hit by pieces of rock or bits of bark when the trees and roots have exploded while doing hand crew work on fires. The flame spread was uncontrolled and limited unless it was part of a wind break or flame jumped from tree to tree or radiant heat started fires in adjacent trees. A “50 yard clear cut”…..what might that do? He is probably referring to crowning out. Enable legislation similar to what the NG gets to protect them from job loss when they are called up. Retired now, Happy Firefighting! I have photos of one of them that was on the Serentity Trail north of Newcastle, Wyoming last year. I can’t imagine the apocalypse we face if we can’t get President Trump and so many others to stop using the word ‘explode’ in this way: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/explode%20into%20flames, https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/12/climate/oregon-wildfires.html “The northwest part of the state, usually much wetter, has dried out this year, enabling flames driven by powerful winds to “just EXPLODE down these canyons.”, https://www.boston25news.com/news/3-dead-wildfire/2WBDYXMEPSZZFXOAUJAAAJ3FDU/ “3 dead as wildfire EXPLODES in Northern California”, https://www.reviewjournal.com/news/nation-and-world/unchecked-wildfires-explode-across-wind-blown-california-2114368/ “Unchecked wildfires EXPLODE across wind-blown California”, https://www.timesunion.com/news/article/California-wildfire-explodes-burning-across-25-15555627.php “California wildfire EXPLODES, burning across 25 miles in day”. The eucalyptus tree, native to Australia, and now common in other parts of the world, is an exotic-looking and aromatic tree. I close my fireplace screen because I know once that log gets preheated, the pressure of the moisture inside is going to explode and send embers out onto the carpet. If it’s public land, contact the local parks department and ask if there’s a clean up program in place to pick up eucalyptus debris. The highly flammable non-native species accounted for 70 percent of the energy released through combustion of vegetation during the fire, according to the National Park Service. Really, he doesn’t know what he’s talking about. It’s really quite nonsensical. Back on track….what hasn’t been discussed is the amount of fine fuels that get built up on the moist years such as 2019….this see saw effect of wet and dry correlates well with a graph Bill published recently. Given that these trees are native to Australia, very fire prone region, this is one sinus clearing event that might be … You can’t see the tree for the forest? There are unconfirmed reports that eucalyptus trees in Australia can explode in a fire but I’m not convinced this is true. He replied within a few hours: “I have been out of the fire business for a long time and I don’t recall discussing exploding trees. But there is no reference or proof. As a result, eucalyptus is not a wood that most homeowners would choose for a wood-burning stove used for cooking. All at once the tree (red fir) exploded. Never say never…. He’s not saying the dead and down trees are literal time bombs or some other ordnance. Trees don’t explode, but they can burn very quickly under some circumstances. Purchases through these links may earn us a small commission at no additional cost to you. A person might wonder if they would have put up as strong a defense if the same words had been spoken by a different President. None of what you pasted there says anything about a tree exploding 18 months after the tree falls down, or anytime: But with regard to the forest, when trees fall down after a short period of time, about 18 months, they become very dry, they become really like a match stick and they get up you know there’s no more water pouring through and they become very, very they just explode. In fact, it has been pointed out that eucalyptus was responsible for an estimated 70% of all energy released in the 1991 Oakland hills fires. Although eucalyptus trees burn quickly, they also regenerate fast, from buds buried deep in their inner bark. For starters, pick up the debris it drops, such as branches and leaves. I concur with you and a previous commenter that the public has a long way to go regarding fires, forest ecology and the urban-wildland interface. There are unconfirmed reports that eucalyptus trees in Australia can explode in a fire … The individual “chambers” started exploding and popping as the dead fuel around it burned and heated the water inside. Good job. I would bet that most NASCAR and IndyCar mechanics/engineers would say “explodes” in mixed company conversations. My cousins took pictures of another one in the Black Hills this year and posted them on Facebook. There is no cost, and in case you change your mind each email has an unsubscribe button. Your email address will not be published. Eucalyptus Oil and Fire On hot days in Tasmania and blue gum’s other native regions, eucalyptus oil vaporizes in the heat. Eric Draper/AP. We can’t expect the general public (including politicians) to describe a high-intensity fire the way members of wildland fire community can (or should be able to do so). Years ago, I was traveling through eastern Washington and got caught up in a big traffic stall in the middle of an aggressive wildfire. Yep, I experience a tree exploding. Thus creating more fires as the flying embers set off more and more fires. There may be different concepts of what it means for a tree to explode. The myth of exploding trees may have originated with a classic film about wildfires, “Red Skies of Montana” which showed firefighters being harassed by exploding trees, thanks to movie magic. When they “exploded”, they also “screamed “. If only there were policies to discuss….we could then at least agree or disagree on the substance… Instead we are left flailing at one mans lack of desire to offer meaningful, considered content to what is a truly tragic life event for many. Many researchers have produced alternative models, but none have made it into the hands of firefighters on a widespread basis. Upon reading the article and having perused the commentary (political ideology aside) I have concluded that Mr. Trump spoke in error. Cold weather will cause some trees to shatter by freezing the sap, because it contains water, which expands as it freezes, creating a sound like a gunshot. We all know that. Not one tree exploded. Some of the readers of Wildfire Today were offended by what they saw as criticism, and bent over backwards to make what he said seem reasonable. In 1991, over 3,000 homes and 25 lives were lost after eucalyptus trees caught fire throughout the Oakland Hills of California. For civilians, the sudden changes in the sight, sound and feel of low- and moderate-intensity surface fires transitioning to crown fires in conifer forests no doubt conveys the feeling of an “explosion”. Have seen extreme fire behavior many times out here in the western states. When I make a mistake or “misspeak,” I correct or clarify my mistake for the record. Twenty years after the fire … He’s not talking about low intensity surface fire, full tilt raging crown fires, lightning strikes, fires transitioning from ground to crown, torching, auto ignition, spontaneous ignition, rapid expansion of gases, oak trees, fire science, eucalyptus trees, area ignition, conflagration or explosive fire growth. John Claudius Loudon described this effect of cold on trees in his Encyclopaedia of Gardening, in the entry for frosts, as follows : Let’s establish a National Guard-like structure specifically for wildland fire. California and Oregon fires — lives lost and structures burned, El Dorado Fire approaches Highway 38 near Angelus Oaks, increasing the threat to the mountain communities, https://californiachaparral.org/fire/protecting-your-home/, https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/12/climate/oregon-wildfires.html, https://www.boston25news.com/news/3-dead-wildfire/2WBDYXMEPSZZFXOAUJAAAJ3FDU/, https://www.reviewjournal.com/news/nation-and-world/unchecked-wildfires-explode-across-wind-blown-california-2114368/, https://www.timesunion.com/news/article/California-wildfire-explodes-burning-across-25-15555627.php, Communicating with the public during evacuations is not easy, Australia adopts new standards for emergency warning systems, Report released for fire shelter deployment on Bridger Foothills Fire in Montana, Remembering the firefighters injured or killed at Pearl Harbor 79 years ago today, One view of why wildfires are becoming more destructive. Have heard various sounds from trees when they burn, but no explosions. Even as someone who isn’t his biggest fan by any means, this is getting abundantly silly. Then the President talked about exploding trees: “But with regard to the forest, when trees fall down after a short period of time, about 18 months, they become very dry, they become really like a match stick and they get up you know there’s no more water pouring through and they become very, very they just explode. I realize now that what I saw and heard has a scientific explanation and wasn’t technically an explosion or a scream, but that is how I have described that experience for the past 30 years. Researchers are split on whether eucalyptus tolerate fire very well or if they actively fucking love it — there’s a chance that the tree evolved the way it has because it benefits from wildfires that blast through the forest destroying everything but taking the eucalyptus’s seed pods and dropping them in newly fertile ground where they can start their lifecycle over again. Those who have lost everything deserve better…..and that starts at the top. Cross train the NG more extensively for air support and logistics. Bill Gabbert Wildfire Today Wildfire News & Opinion, since 2008. I’m not suggesting a whole scale war on fire, just on handling the extreme conditions we find ourselves in at times. I very, very deeply appreciate all the information you put out there, and the efforts you go to in order to educate all of us, and I hope you’ll continue to do so. We’re talking about professional experience and professional opinions. I’ve heard that eucalyptus trees are a major contributor to wildfires and forest fires because they burn more easily. Examples of such figurative language are prolific, especially with reference to fire behavior. So many people tying themselves in knots trying to validate Mr. Trumps concept of exploding trees. That I believe could happen. In my 33 years of fighting wildland fires I never saw or heard a tree explode, and I don’t know a reputable firefighter that has. Thank you for your articles about wildfires. I for one, am fascinated by anything that goes “BOOM!”. Noted. He also said, “Rothermel theorized that the moisture in the tree is superheated and caused the rapid expansion of gasses that go boom.”, (UPDATE: Mr. Carroll sent me the video, with permission to post it on YouTube. I didn’t think to ask them to clarify. We need big ideas and our current President is incapable of them, especially when it concerns wildland fire. It was a powerful moment in my life. These political snipes aren’t the least bit useful. He’s a &#%&$5. Some live trees, like Australia's eucalyptus, have been reported to have exploded at times by firefighters, as the sap superheats and expands, while freezing trees have been reported to let off sounds like gunshots as the saps freezes and snaps off limbs. I like to be corrected–with evidence. As such, densely populated eucalyptus groves are susceptible to firestorms of incredible proportions, as presciently pointed out in this study of eucalyptus around the Berkeley-Oakland Hills area, authored 18 years before the catastrophic Oakland fires of 1991. The Oakland Hills Fire may have started on the ground, but the Eucalyptus trees surrounding people’s homes in the Oakland-Berkeley Hills helped it burn more and spread even further. The Yellowstone fire in the 80s clearing fire breaks I blew up more trees than I could count. Now, before you run out and chop down the tree in your backyard, let me inject a bit of sanity to reduce the paranoia. “The other which your question prompts me to believe is what is meant by an exploding tree is for the trunk to become super heated sufficiently to cause the moisture in the tree to suddenly become steam with resulting expansion which would shatter the tree. But obviously something struck them as being explosive when they witnessed these fires grow into the monsters that they were. He seems to have a penchant for hyperbole. The Challenger space shuttle didn’t just “explode” butttt we and the news media say it did. Exploding trees or not, it’s dry heat and wind that create catastrophic conditions. But the reason the trees still now appear throughout the San Francisco Bay Area is that an old land developer, Frank Colton Havens, became convinced that eucalyptus lumber sale profits would be greater than “that of an average gold mine.”. Although not a tree, I did witness fire getting into a stand of bamboo during an Rx burn. But eucalyptus oil is highly flammable and when there is a bush fire near a eucalyptus tree the oil fumes can superheat causing the whole tree to explode into flames. The president was perhaps told by some “authority” that trees explode or misinterpreted something he saw on TV. Within months, the tree stumps sprouted. I’ve tried 4 or 5 times to post a fuller version of this but Bill’s comment system just seems to barf when I do so I’ll keep this simple. I know of two ponderosa pines that exploded as a result of lightning strikes, NOT wildfires. Seeds of 14 varieties were cultivated. Many species of eucalyptus both tolerate fire, hiding from the flames behind thick bark, and depend on it to open their seed pods. If tree explosions are an issue, I urge all of you who believe to issue a safe net to your local fire fighting department or your federal supervisor as soon as possible. In fact a big part of the training of this new group could be WFU or prescribed fires during slower seasons or fuel management work during the off times. I am a big fan of using low volume myster style sprinklers (.2 to .5 gpm) to fireproof the outside of homes and surrounding grounds. The hardy eucalyptus, native to Australia and the favored food of koalas, has an ancient relationship with fire. This led me to question the validity of the Presidents assertion and thus I have come to this page. A whole article about a synonym? I first wrote about the myth of trees exploding in 2016 when a senator talked about “trees literally exploding”. It seems like a big stretch to interpret it differently. Typos, let us know HERE. His point throughout all of this was getting support and protection to the crews, and doing what we can to keep more of these horrible fires from happening again. 1. When examining the stump, they were shattered and splintered as though they were blown off. Good follow up on your previous post about fantasy of exploding trees on wildfires. keep up the good work. In most cases, the particular species giving all of eucalyptus a bad name for fires is the Blue Gum Eucalyptus. Gilmore. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/explode. Maybe not. And maple trees can explode in below freezing temperatures when the sap freezes. Before he met with the Governor and fire officials he stepped before microphones and provided his opinion about what led to the numerous fires in Oregon and California. ‘Once and for all’, some trees, like eucalypts, under the right conditions, can definitely ‘explode’. “The most important thing to know is what you don’t know.” –M. Just like literally everyone else is doing with every single word spoken by our president, this is just taking one word, pulling it out of context, and getting overly fiddly about the semantics. (well met Bruce Lodge). In all the wild land fires I participate in Orange County and LA County, Eucalyptus and California Oak would catch fire at the base at the low hanging branches and cascade upward. If fire suppression management think they can just keep doing it the way it has been , then we are in for a long, difficult and mostly unsucessful ride.. https://www.smartwatermark.org/products/platypus-bushfire-protection-sprinkler-system/52/, From: https://californiachaparral.org/fire/protecting-your-home/. Made a BIG impression! Establish a national distributed cache of appropriate equipment and PPE to support the call-up crews. To most people, structural firefighters are the image of fire. After a fire, many eucalypt species will sprout epicormic shoots along their entire trunks. Pinon pines in the mesa country of NW OK panhandle, NE New Mexico, and SE Colorado do explode in some cases. In my years at the fire laboratory I never heard anyone report seeing this or finding evidence of it. I sent you some video from a trail camera and some photographs of the 1910 Great Fire and the 1992 Central Idaho Fires that show vast destruction that is simply not explained by any one factor like the wind. Never have I seen or heard a tree explode, from near or from far. Eucalyptus oil is highly flammable; ignited trees have been known to explode. Do trees EXPLODE? I’m told it’s when the hay gets put up to green. Yeah, I think whats getting lost in the translation is the point. I got a free skin peel from the little gobs of pitch it tossed out the top of the convection column. Imho, having sat and watched tree after tree “explode” into flames during the Rodeo-Chediski with my own eyes, I don’t think it’s far off the mark to refer to the striking visual of a tree-crowning fire as an explosion. Dead trees ought not be left to rot in the forest. They can explode.”. “Like a match stick” they are volatile fuel source that can easily erupt/explode in flames with even a small trigger. I saw GP clear cut it, leaving behind a lot of slash and (16″+ dbh) trees downed by the ‘dozers skidding out the logs just to watch them fall. The Australians are remarkably good at adopting good ideas. It wasn’t until much later that it was discovered that the California Blue Gums were not harvested for timber even in their native Australia. Let’s all try to keep our political pants pulled up. Wild fire today was a lot more interesting before it became political. These aren’t lab exercises when you have a fast moving fire, preheating fuels very long distances ahead of a front (yes, there can be more than one “front” on a fire), so hot and intense that hair curls on the back of your neck as well as your ears, and sometimes (back in the day of aluminum hard hats) you could even smell the paint from your hat. Imported to the United States around 1860, the trees are native to Australia and up until 1990 were relatively pest and disease free. Not one explosion. People need to stop taking everything so literal. It occurs in the lower part and roots when conditions are right and the tree is rapidly consumed by fire. I’ve never seen wet hay explode into flames either, but put out several that did. The final scenario in which trees can explode is specific to the Eucalyptus tree. This is from the CalWood Fire, allegedly an exploding tree captured mid-air: Even a cursory review of the definitions (for those who need it) makes it easy to identify at least one that fits the context President Trump was using it in. And yes boomerangs back to us for lack of outreach. This leads to an accumulation of very dry, highly combustible fuel on the ground. What if you ate the little packet that says Do Not Eat? I’m not arguing whether trees do or don’t explode. So when Trump says something it’s the truth. Look, I don’t want to be that guy that comes across as attacking you. I never saw that in decades of forest firefighting, no one I know who has ever done the job of fire fighting has either. We have not,reached enough people nationwide and educated them . Marty Alexander, Wild Rose Fire Behaviour, Leduc County, Alberta. If anyone has doubt about how forest should be managed, you have to ask the experts, Native Americans. Due to the high oil and phenolic content of the debris, it cannot be broken down by fungi like many other trees’ litter. I figured it could be an entirely original idea but why aren’t we (as a country) talking about some of these bigger ideas? I have never encountered one that has exploded. If an alternative explanation cannot be disproven, then the proposed explanation remains theory. To Dave’s comment on trump stating”science doesn’t know”….yes, hard to hear, but even harder to watch. No one said they had. It’s true public to this day does not understand forest firefighting. You could hear it and see the debris fly through the air. Koala is eating eucalyptus leaves - Photo by preechasiri/Freepik, Start typing to see results or hit ESC to close. It had Richard Widmark in it, and he’s an actor. I make mistakes a lot. California. Natural sources include dead branches and forest floor litter. How can we expect the community to not pick up on and use these terms even if out of context? (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); 12 collections of beautiful hand-drawn vintage fashions! Learn more here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPUFUKFbKa8. 30 years of firefighting, 9 as a hotshot, the rest on engines and fire management. Where he got the idea that tree trunks lying on the ground exploded is not clear, but nothing burns more slowly than big trunks lying on the ground. Science, or what mankind does with it for good (or bad) never ceases to amaze me. And maple trees can explode in below freezing temperatures when the sap freezes. … If it’s a neighbor, politely suggest the abatement steps listed above, if they don’t already practice them. The photo I sent from Grape Creek on the Boise shows a scene reminiscent of the battlefields of World War 1 following an artillery barrage. The voice of Wildland firefighters are not heard enough Or forgotten in off season. Do trees explode? I don’t believe anyone would have a problem with this sentence: “An unattended campfire got out of control on a hot, windy day and very quickly exploded into a raging inferno.”. Obviously meaning just combusting rather quickly. Haha you have never done any prescribed burning I see. If you do have a eucalyptus tree on your property, there are several things you can do to reduce your fire risk. We shall see. I do not take corrections personally. Once ablaze, the gummy trees tend to ‘explode,’ spewing out blazing material that can land miles away, sparking new fires.”. In the springtime and early summer the trees become saturated with moisture which expands violently from the heat of the lightning strike. While I can’t say that I was not shocked when I heard Trump say that trees explode about a year and a half after they fall, I can say that I was, somewhat, taken aback. Thanks Bill for your relentless commitment to the science and “doing the homework” to separate fact from ungrounded opinion. I for one with well over 30 years of wildland firefighting service have never seen a tree explode. Just yesterday Biden was quoted as saying that we can see the fires and smoke from our satellites a million miles in space. Fire often even seems to have a rejuvenating effect on the trees. If this tree catches on fire, the eucalyptus oil seeps out. "Make sure that the roofing you have is resistant to falling embers and ash," says Drew. Heck even arguing about it might get us thinking about how to do it and lead to some innovation. It might not be entirely but it’s at least something to talk about. And sometimes it starts wildfires or injures people. As far as trees exploding, under the right conditions anything could explode. Meade, “The suspension of judgment is the highest exercise in intellectual discipline.” –R. It’s really quite simple. If you live near a large grove of trees that are not under your control, the best thing you can be is aware of the fact that they are there. Trees not only put a lot of fuel on the ground as they shed bark, leaves and twigs, but in intense fires, volatile compounds in foliage cause explosive burning. 'Trees can explode': Trump again blames California for causing wildfires with poor forest management. Makes me want to puke. The Bridger Foothills Fire near Bozeman, Montana, isn't large in comparison to some of the blazes exploding across the West, but it has been costly. Have a wildland fire news tip? It is inevitable. Once and for all, eucalyptus trees have always exploded when they catch fire. Fires actually help spread eucalyptus… (This is partly explained by the fact that eucalyptus oil is known for its antibacterial, antimicrobial, anti-inflammatory and analgesic qualities.). I used to survey trees (late fifties and early sixties) where the North Complex Fire is burning now. Prescribed burning in any topography except FLAT, creates its own head wind going up hill……can’t be done. City folk. Gasoline doesn’t explode in the engine when the spark plug sparks butttt it burns at a pretty rapid rate. Perhaps the most amazing fire adaptation is that some species actually require fire for their seeds to sprout. Get over it! One other alternative is to find a family of koalas to help out. Then, as the false notion developed that eucalyptus was ideal lumber and a fine substitute for hardwood, everybody started getting into the act, hoping to make a huge profit. Slash left in the woods by loggers makes fires worse, and are a great source of airborne firebrands, which generate spot fires and ignite houses. A bad roof. Wow that is some kind of satellite when the moon is 238,000 miles from Earth. But thanks for contributing. We may always wonder, like where he got a notion that raking the forest floors would be good forest management. They have adapted to dry, fire-prone climes. As long as it’s something more intelligent than raking the forest and 50-yard wide clearcuts. We referred to it as exploding even though it was not like a bomb. As they noted in 2004, “The non-native eucalyptus trees are aggressive growers and are particularly dangerous in a fire. At point of tree/vegetation autoignition, it could be characterized as an explosion due to associated rapid expansion/release of gases and drastic increases in temperature. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/explode, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/explode%20into%20flames, Bill, you have a lot of work ahead of you to get the word out on this. Also expecting someone with no experience fighting wildfires to know all the bits and pieces about it is equally silly, even if they are the President of the United States. There were butt cuts in excess of 13 feet in the standing, thick forest (tight canopy) that had escaped crown fires in hundreds of years. Unfortunately those of for us that have been involved in wildland fire science, suppression, and management, this is not a reality tv show, but real life, and a comment response yesterday to scientists about the continued drought and recent 130-degree temperatures in Death Valley, “science doesn’t know” is hard to hear, let alone take. When the pressure reaches a certain point the tree trunk will explode. Thank you for your kind attention. Somewhat like the gas tank on a car, I’ve seen lots of them rupture in giant fireballs, but never seen one actually boom and flip the car over. Mr Trump’s comments in Sacramento are not helpful, let alone inaccurate. 3. It’s impossible to think and believe at the same time. We have 30,000 personnel on the fires. When Mr. Trump said trees can explode, I decided to write a followup to the 2016 article, hoping to clear up any confusion, since trees do not explode. When trees fall, they do make crashing sounds. 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