[meteorite-list] Fireball News Cast video causes fires in the woods

From: bill kies <parkforestmet_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2010 12:59:24 -0500
Message-ID: <SNT102-W499E2FEF3E5BC8F6B865DEA20F0_at_phx.gbl>

Aside from the fires, her report was still interesting as it included descriptions of a fireball lighting up the sky, the house shook, big boom and an earthquake.
 
 
  
> From: GeoZay at aol.com
> Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2010 13:09:20 -0400
> To: meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Fireball News Cast video causes fires in the woods
>
>>>Here is a video link of the fireball from last night. An some witness
> took some images of some fires that were caused by the fall. Ill let you
> guess decide what you think of this.<<
>
> the reporters were doing okay up until the phone in report. Then that had
> to been the most boring phone in news report I've ever heard. :O) I'm quite
> confident that the burning trees had nothing to do with the meteor.
> Probably lightning caused it some time ago. Judging by the large sized tree trunk
> in one of those photos, it took some doing to get it to burn all the way
> thru. The interior of a live tree is wet, so it wasn't something that just
> caught on fire a few hours ago and did that much burning. I've seen trees
> under more favorable burning conditions take days to burn this much. Anyhow,
> I wouldn't connect the meteor with the fires in any way.
> GeoZay
>
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Received on Thu 15 Apr 2010 01:59:24 PM PDT