CNN CNN Newsroom With Poppy Harlow and Jim Sciutto June 4, 2024 13:38:00
That -- you know, this is range country. juniper, pine, mixed conifer, mixed forest. they've had months to dry out and cure. wood burns hotter when it's dry. so when the fire gets started in those conditions, there's simply a tremendous amount of energy that gets released from the fire. so the wind is driving the fire, intensifying that fire behavior, and as that column reaches up into the sky, it creates the pyrocumulus cloud that we've seen repeated days on this fire. then that system starts to pull more wind into the fire, which gives more oxygen to the fire. it pushes on the fire, and esse...
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