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Originally Posted by blankall
Not to downplay the risk of starting forest fires with cigarette butts, but I'm always curious how they would determine something like this. They sift through the forest and find the but? It makes sense in a home or smaller area, where you can use the burn pattern to find the source, but some of the forest fires they blame on cigarettes go on for acres.
Anyone with expertise here? Genuinely curious.
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I would suspect they know the general area the fire started, and if their is a predominant wind direction it shouldn't be to hard to follow the burn pattern to the source. If it is a ditch just off the highway you could say yup, this looks about where it started, oh here is a cigarette butt and there are no other obvious ignition sources around.