3/30/2006: Wildfires melt metal sign, kill livestock

[xoxoxoBruce]

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?

I think the fire causes the wind, in some cases. Air rushing in to replace what's sent skyward by the heat of the blaze.

I'm amazed, looking at the areas that didn't burn, that barren country provides enough fuel to feed a fire like this.
That "metal" sign is probably aluminum which I believe melts at around 11 or 12 hundred degrees F.