Current Events > Zombie Fires are a real thing

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qF99NMwPCOM

Like animals, fires can hibernate in the cold, smoldering underground for months on end. Known as holdover or zombie fires, they are not characterized by roaring flames but by plumes of smoke seeping from the ground.
How and where do zombie fires originate?

Zombie fires mainly originate in the cool boreal conifer forests found in Canada, Alaska, Northern Europe, or Siberia, where the ground is covered with a thick layer of needles and other vegetation that burns easily.

The soils in these regions are also often very peaty. As the precursor to coal, peat is highly flammable, so when boreal forests go up in flames, it doesn't take much for the fires to spread underground, where they stay alight for a long time. Particularly when the soil is dry.

Even when it snows, the fires tend not to go out, because not enough moisture gets into the soil to extinguish them.

In fact, if there is a lot of peat and other plant residue in the ground, these fires can continue to burn throughout the winter.

https://www.dw.com/en/what-are-zombie-fires-and-how-dangerous-are-they/a-68397575

Coal fires are the final boss of fire

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burning_Mountain

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/f/f12fc91f.jpg

I am Wang Fire and this is my wife Sapphire Fire

Centralia ever heard of it

Damn, freaky

Tyranthraxus posted...

Coal fires are the final boss of fire

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burning_Mountain

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/f/f12fc91f.jpg

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/e/e0c4445e.jpg

Tyranthraxus posted...

Coal fires are the final boss of fire

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burning_Mountain

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/f/f12fc91f.jpg

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centralia_mine_fire

The Centralia mine fire is a coal-seam fire which has been burning in the labyrinth of abandoned coal mines underneath the borough of Centralia, Pennsylvania, United States, since at least May 27, 1962. Its original cause and start date are still a matter of debate. It is burning at depths of up to 300 ft (90 m) over an 8 mi (13 km) stretch of 3,700 acres (15 km2). At its current rate, it could continue to burn for over 250 years. Due to the fire, in the 1980s Centralia was mostly abandoned. There were 1,500 residents at the time the fire is believed to have started, but as of 2017 it has a population of 5 and most of the buildings have been demolished.

Also known as a Tesla fire.

I read it as zombie fries.

shnangyboos posted...

I read it as zombie fries.

Is that like ass jerky from a ghoul?

shnangyboos posted...

I read it as zombie fries.

Potatoes potaaaaaaaatoes

El_Marsh posted...

Is that like ass jerky from a ghoul?

No, it's like a fish fry but with zombies.

It is deeply offensive to all five senses.

I only read the op but how do these things get oxygen? Just enough seeps through or something?

DrizztLink posted...

No, it's like a fish fry but with zombies.

It is deeply offensive to all five senses.

*glorious*

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