'Pingpong balls of flame' dropped near West Glacier

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Wed Jul-30-03 12:31 PM
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'Pingpong balls of flame' dropped near West Glacier

'Pingpong balls of flame' dropped near West Glacier

By COURTNEY LOWERY
Associated Press Writer

WEST GLACIER -- Firefighters began dropping what one official called "pingpong balls of flame" in front of a growing wildfire Tuesday, hoping to divert it from hundreds of homes and businesses evacuated a day earlier.

Helicopters dropped the first of the fire-starters at about noon, igniting what is expected to be a more than 2,000-acre "burnout" in front of the encroaching 12,150-acre Robert Fire.

"One guy in a helicopter dropping pingpong balls of flame is pretty cool," said Pete Buist, a fire information officer adding, "If we weren't confident, we wouldn't be doing it."

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Wed Jul-30-03 12:34 PM
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1. This could work

the NY Science Times had an excellent article last week on how the understory burns stopped a fire dead in its tracks in North Carolina.

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