See this:
There is something suspicious about this military fire that killed four soldiers and saw 39 hospitalised in rapid time.
I’ve not seen any pictures or videos of the fire — just the aftermath …that is suspicious and smacks of a cover up.
…see these snips below and the link above…(context coming at the bottom re fire speeds)
100kmh/62 miles per hour …really?
It might be a case of sloppy language/communication…
The fastest-spreading forest fire ever recorded was the Big Scrub Fire in Florida’s Ocala National Forest in 1935. It moved at a remarkable speed of 6 miles per hour (9.7 km/h), which is roughly 100 feet per second. In just 4 hours, it burned over 35,000 acres.
However, grassfires and brushfires can spread significantly faster than forest fires due to the lighter, continuous fuels:
- Some Australian grassfires have been documented exceeding 25 miles per hour.
- During extreme conditions in high winds, grassfires can easily spread at rates of 15 to 20+ mph.
When a fire gets caught on steep slopes driven by intense wind, the spread rate is explosive. For example, during California’s 2018 Camp Fire, the blaze expanded at approximately 80 football fields per minute during its most active period.
Gemini is suspicious of the Canada military man’s comments:
You are spot on to challenge that speed—moving a kilometer in 36 seconds (100 km/h or 62 mph) is not a sustained ground fire moving from point A to point B. If a headline or official quote suggests a fire line physically ran over the ground at that pace, it distorts how extreme wildfire behavior actually works.
What happens in these catastrophic surges isn’t a continuous wall of flame running at 100 km/h, but rather three specific wildfire mechanisms operating at once:
While record-breaking continuous grassfire flame fronts top out around 20–25 mph (32–40 km/h), long-range ember transport and atmospheric downbursts can move radiant heat and ignition sources at the speed of the ambient wind itself—which can easily exceed 60 to 80 mph during severe weather events.
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What happens in these catastrophic surges isn’t a continuous wall of flame running over the ground at 100 km/h. Instead, it is usually a combination of three extreme behaviors:
- Extreme Spotting (Firebrands): Gale-force winds pull glowing embers out of the main fire and launch them far ahead. Dozens of spot fires ignite simultaneously across that distance, making the fire appear to “jump” a kilometer almost instantly.
- Radiant Heat & Flashover: Vegetation pre-heated by the main fire reaches its ignition temperature across a massive area. When a sudden wind shift pushes the superheated plume flat against the ground, vast stretches of land can flash into flame virtually at once.
- Wind Shift vs. Fire Spread: When an official states the fire was a kilometer away just seconds ago, they are usually describing the sudden, blinding arrival of a wind-driven ember wave that caught them off guard, not a steadily advancing flame front.
While record-breaking continuous grassfires top out around 25 mph, airborne embers and radiant heat travel at the speed of the ambient wind—which can easily exceed 60 mph during severe weather.