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Originally Posted by Kitsune
I had no idea grass fires got hot enough to melt a sign like that, or was this also a very impressively windy day (hence, the fabric-like appearance of it) as well?
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The Canberra fire on 18 January 2003 did more than that: in Kambah, where it was "only" a grass fire, it melted steel Colorbond fence panels. Houses were reduced to a thin layer of ash on a concrete slab: even the ovens, bathtubs, fridges etc had melted and flowed away.