Pushing this narrative with a few small fires in areas where mowing left lots of fuel and not covering the Ruidoso fires - carrying Shels water after his departing I guess……this isn't drought or anything other than careless cigarettes and an obsession to cut grass in the summer.
Focus at Four: Texas A&M Forest Service discusses Highway Six fires https://www.kbtx.com/2024/06/18/focus-four-texas-am-forest-service-discusses-highway-six-fires/

Look out your window driving down 6. Currently- cutting grass increases fuels. It's pretty obvious. In a month or so it might not matter. But now it does.

So mowing does increase fires now - that are not significant or newsworthy- but prevents bigger ones later? I'll buy that argument- and it's not what KBTX reported while ignoring a tragic NM fire that has been burning 13 hr and become very newsworthy in past 3 hrs.

It's called click bait. Wildfires out west don't have a damn thing to do with 10x10 fire on the bypass.

Here is the burn ban map for Texas

I wonder if we have another idiot running around with fireworks starting them on purpose again.

🔥MORE ARSON CHARGES: KBTX has learned that William Spangler has been arrested again and charged with SEVEN additional counts of arson for fires that he allegedly set with fireworks in late June in multiple areas across Bryan. pic.twitter.com/KKQU3MAavA

— 🚨 Rusty Surette 🚨 (@KBTXRusty) July 28, 2022

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Police and fire officials say they used surveillance cameras from area homes and businesses near the fire sites to identify Spangler and his work van. In some of the videos, Spangler can be seen throwing a firework known as a "ground bloom flower" out the window of his van into dry areas of grass and brush. Those types of fireworks can spin and change colors and can emit very high heat, investigators said. The reports say a firework was recovered from each of the scenes that have been linked back to Spangler.

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https://www.kbtx.com/2022/07/13/bryan-man-accused-using-fireworks-start-several-grass-fires/

EBrazosAg said:

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Look out your window driving down 6. Currently- cutting grass increases fuels. It's pretty obvious. In a month or so it might not matter. But now it does.

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That is incorrect.

Tall, dry grass has much more of a tendency to carry a fire across natural and man made fire breaks. The embers are larger and heavier and can hold more heat. Grass that has a significant height can create its own wind and drive heat to unburned areas.

It also burns more intensely because of the higher fuel load.

What you make be thinking about are pasture fires or fires from overgrown lots from people trying to cut it too fast. If they mow or shred from the middle or they don't set the blade high enough, it can bunch up and heat up the grass enough to ignite.

If it's really high, it needs to be cut high from the edge and then cut again at a lower setting.