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The Poe Fire also did roughly $500,000 in damage to road and highway infrastructure (such as safety devices and signage), including Highway 70. [22] The total losses amounted to more than $6 million, on top of about $5 million in fire suppression costs. [5] At the time, the Poe Fire was the most destructive fire in the history of Butte County. [23]
The creation of sparks from metals is based on the pyrophoricity of small metal particles, and pyrophoric alloys are made for this purpose. [2] Practical applications include the sparking mechanisms in lighters and various toys, using ferrocerium; starting fires without matches, using a firesteel; the flintlock mechanism in firearms; and spark testing ferrous metals.
The passage of fire, by increasing temperature and releasing smoke, is necessary to raise seeds dormancy of pyrophile plants such as Cistus and Byblis an Australian passive carnivorous plant. Imperata cylindrica is a plant of Papua New Guinea. Even green, it ignites easily and causes fires on the hills.
Lighting a fart. Fart lighting, also known as pyroflatulence or flatus ignition, is the practice of igniting the gases produced by flatulence.The resulting flame is often of a blue hue hence the act being known colloquially as a "blue angel", "blue dart" or in Australia, a "blue flame".
Victims show a high likelihood of having died in their sleep, or of having been unable to move once they had caught fire. Smoking is often seen as the source of fire. [16] Natural causes such as heart attacks may lead to the victim dying, subsequently dropping the cigarette, which after a period of smouldering can ignite the victim's clothes. [16]
Embers commonly cause house loss up to 500 meters from the fire front, [7] and in exceptional circumstances up to kilometers [8] In Australia, evaporative air conditioners are known to ignite from ember attack. Ember attack causes the filter pads from evaporative AC to ignite, and the fire spreads through the roof space destroying the home.
Flashover is a sudden widespread fire, which occurs when most surfaces in a space are heated until they emit flammable gases hot enough to auto-ignite. Before flashover, flammable gases may be emitted but are too cool to ignite. The trench effect occurs when a fire burns beside a steeply inclined surface.
Pyromania is characterised by a recurrent failure to control strong impulses to set fires, resulting in multiple acts of, or attempts at, setting fire to property or other objects, in the absence of an apparent motive (e.g., monetary gain, revenge, sabotage, political statement, attracting attention or recognition).