. Bulletin (New York Ministère des Eaux et Forêts), no. 35. Les forêts et la foresterie. H 00 Ed H O O H CO "lorsque les incendies atteignent leur maximum, ils sont plus que terrible dans leur fureur. L'air semble en feu. Il y a ceux qui croient que l'air se décompose à une certaine chaleur et que les gaz s'enflamment, forme- mg une atmosphère de cain. Dans le feu de l'Peshtigo flammes semblait aller quarante milles à travers l'air crasseux. Dans cet holocauste une chose étrange s'est passé difficile d'explication physique. Une nouvelle maison, partiellement terminées et en cours de construction, situé près de
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. Bulletin (Pennsylvania Department of Forests and Waters), no. 35. Forests and forestry. H 00 Ed H O o H CO "When forest fires reach their maximum, they are more than terrible in their fury. The very air seems afire. There are those who believe that the air decomposes at a certain heat and that the gases ignite, form- mg an atmosphere of liquid flames. In the Peshtigo fire the'flames appeared to jump forty miles through the grimy air. In that holocaust a queer thing transpired difficult of physical explanation. A new house, partially completed and in course of construction, located near the center of the town, was not even scorched. Not an ember was otherwise left. Some sort of cold air zone formed around the house, like the air pockets encountered by aviators or something similar. Anyhow, there was this freak case. "There is such a thing as the air being so filled with carbon that it burns in advance of a gale of fire. I have seen and have run before forest fires that were advancing with hurricane swiftness through the top of trees. The tops half-way to the ground would melt in the sea of flame like soft lead bars in a furnace. These would intensify the more slowly advancing ground fire until everything in its path would be con- sumed and melted, even the rocks themselves. Once some of my men in my absence, took refuge on the summit of a bare mountain of stone. They were suffocated by the hot air. During the historic fires in the Thumb of Michigan' people descended into wells to escape, only to be caught like rats and asphyxiated. Dozens of corpses were pulled out of the wells. "Nothing is so terrible as a fire in a great forest in a dry time. More timber has been burned than has been lumbered. There never was a greater menace to the only great fringing forests remaining in North America. These great zones of wild life are on the way to becoming treeless, birdless, and waterless unless we save the forests at least in spots. Not floods, nor storm, no
