I had heard the thing about tree roots burning for weeks or months underground but never really believed it... Till I saw it with my own eyes.
I went to an area to do some pics with a model that had been burnt out about 10 days before. We went into this area of desolation and black and grey and we shooting away. I thought I could smell smoke but thought it must have been my imagination becasue there was nothing there left to burn. After A while it became acrid enough to start to burn my nostrils and looking around, I saw a stream of smoke from the stump behind me. I started kicking around with my boot and a section of the ground gave way. I was looking into a Tunnel that obviously went a long way off at an angle and as I was looking I could see the glow at the end getting brighter and more intense, obviously from the fresh oxygen getting to it.
It was quite errie really but certainly proved what I had doubted.
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