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  2. The burn ban is in effect for 54 counties in Georgia, including Bibb, Crawford, Houston, Jones, Lamar, Monroe, Peach, Pike, Twiggs and Upson counties. Georgia’s burn ban is in effect now until ...

  3. Georgia Power wants to burn wood for fuel, but ... - AOL

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    Georgia Power will make a case Thursday to the Public Service Commission to add more biomass, a form of energy generation that burns wood pellets or other organic matter, to the state’s energy ...

  4. Controlled burn - Wikipedia

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    A controlled burn or prescribed burn (Rx burn) is the practice of intentionally setting a fire to change the assemblage of vegetation and decaying material in a landscape. The purpose could be for forest management , ecological restoration , land clearing or wildfire fuel management.

  5. Wildfire risk prompts Cal Fire to suspend burn permits in ...

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  6. Tamarack Fire - Wikipedia

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    The Tamarack Fire was first reported July 4 on a rocky ridgetop in the Mokelumne Wilderness, approximately seven miles southwest of Markleeville in Alpine County, California. The fire was started by a lightning strike with the incident origin listed as 4:00 p.m. [1] The CalFire incident shows a start of 11:57 a.m. [5] The fire was underway ...

  7. Wood gas generator - Wikipedia

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    Dodge V10 hauling hay with woodgas.Keith gasifier system Santa-Go, Kanagawa Chuo Kotsu Co., Ltd.. A wood gas generator is a gasification unit which converts timber or charcoal into wood gas, a producer gas consisting of atmospheric nitrogen, carbon monoxide, hydrogen, traces of methane, and other gases, which – after cooling and filtering – can then be used to power an internal combustion ...

  8. Wildfire burn scars could trigger another natural disaster in ...

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    One of the most devastating debris flows in recent history occurred on Jan. 9, 2018, when heavy rain soaked the burn scar left by the Thomas Fire, which had torched approximately 440 square miles ...

  9. List of California wildfires - Wikipedia

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    California land area totals 99,813,760 or roughly 100 million acres, so since 2000, the area that burned annually has ranged between 90,000 acres, or 0.09%, and 1,590,000 acres, or 1.59% of the total land of California. [3] During the 2020 wildfire season alone, over 8,100 fires contributed to the burning of nearly 4.5 million acres of land.