Good investigative reporting about forest fires, their increasing severity, and how we've ironically increased their severity by suppressing them for years.
"Cold trailing is when firefighters form a line and walk the area, feeling with their hands for heat coming up out of the ground and looking for signs of continued burning that could be underground."
http://www.castanet.net/news/Kelowna/146840/Fires-100-contained
http://www.castanet.net/news/Kelowna/146840/Fires-100-contained
"Cold Trailing: A method of controlling a partly dead fire edge by carefully inspecting and feeling with the hand for heat to detect any fire, digging out every live spot, and trenching any live edge."
https://www.fs.fed.us/nwacfire/home/terminology.html
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