Today we ran across two references to the problems that tumbleweeds can cause for firefighters. KRDO in Colorado Springs, Colorado published a video report about how a vegetation fire in El Paso County came close to igniting piles of tumbleweeds, and interviewed a firefighter and residents about the issues associated with the plants that pile up in windrows against fences and structures.
And later we found this photo on Twitter, showing a firefighter assessing what to do about a huge pile of tumbleweeds in Picture Canyon.
MT @PSICC_NF: Brandon Kuhn, wildland firefighter in Picture Canyon, assessing fire hazards of tumble weeds. pic.twitter.com/3VMDPg1omv
— SoRock Fire Science (@SRfirescience) June 4, 2014
Regular readers of Wildfire Today will remember the video we posted in March of tumbleweeds caught up in a large fire whirl during a prescribed fire at the Rocky Mountain Arsenal near Denver:
