Fire guts 20 homes on Washington Indian reservation

[Viva_La_Revolution]

Source: Reuters

Firefighters on Sunday were putting out hot spots from a fierce, wind-whipped blaze that gutted 20 homes and forced 300 residents from their dwellings on the Yakama Indian Reservation southeast of Seattle.

Two firefighters sustained minor eye injuries from flying debris while battling the blaze, which began Saturday afternoon when embers from a chimney fire ignited a rooftop and spread to an adjacent lumber yard and surrounding brush, fire officials said.

The flames grew quickly, eventually engulfing 20 homes and four other private structures in White Swan, a village of some 3,200 residents within the 1.3 million-acre reservation. A post office also was damaged.

Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/02/14/us-fire-reservation-idUSTRE71C20H20110214

[RandomThoughts]

1. buring down the house.

Talking Heads "Burning Down the House"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNnAvTTaJjM


As I said before, explain it from many perspecitves.

Queen - Another One Bites The Dust
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNQRfBAzSzo


Blinded by the Light by Manfred Mann's Earth Band
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eg8cDmi7-U8

[bbinacan]

2. What caused the fire? n/t

[saras]

4. RTFM

The article posted here says a chimney fire spread to a roof.

If you live somewhere that houses haven't had chimneys for decades, combustion byproducts (creosote, for example) that are still capable of burning build up in wood-stove and sometimes oil-burner chimneys. If these start on fire, it creates a gigantic draft - basically the chimney becomes a blast-furnace. It can get hot enough to melt metal chimneys, or start the wood around brick chimneys smoldering, or blow glowing coals out the chimney, that then fall on the roof and start the roof burning.

[blaze]

3. Twenty Homes!!!!

:-(

I can't even imagine.

[defendandprotect]

5. k/r

[uppityperson]

6. Poor Yakimas.