L Smith wrote:

Newps wrote:

Drop an incendiary device anywhere in a western forest at this time of
year and it will start a fire.

During WWII the Japanese tried to start forest fires in the west by
sending incendiary bombs
on balloons across the Pacific.

Yeah, but the Japanese efforts were on the Pacific side of the mountains.
It's *much* drier on the other side. That's where Utah is.

George Patterson
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pessimist is afraid that he's correct.
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