Oregon wildfire explodes to half the size of Rhode Island.
Oregon wildfire explodes to half the size of Rhode Island.
The blaze was set off by lightning on July 17, and wind gusts drove the flames across brush, timberland and ranches
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Another entry in “Americans measuring thing in everything but measurement units”
600 square miles (1,553 square km)
Brave friend of mine went into Forest Conservation and Firefighting, got calf muscles big as cantaloupes!
What's that in metric?
Calf muscles as big as charentais melons.
Using states as a unit of measure for forest fires seems to be a common thing. A couple decades ago I flew into Fairbanks Alaska , and as we were getting close to landing the pilot told everybody not to panic if we smelled smoke because it was just the forest fires that were covering an area the size of Massachusetts.