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It looks like at least one of the fires is being refereed to as "Bugaboo Scrub Fire" by media. Akubhai 19:51, 10 May 2007 (UTC)
Shouldn't this article have a section about impact on air quality? I live in North Carolina, and the air was affected recently by the fires. - AMP'd 15:24, 18 May 2007 (UTC)
There have been several reports of haze in Tennessee (I have seen it myself) due to these fires. It has drifted over here to Western Tennessee:
"MEMPHIS West Tennessee sees southern fire haze
Smoke from the wildfires in Georgia and Florida is drifting into West Tennessee.
The National Weather Service issued a special weather statement Wednesday that said smoke from the fires was causing a thick haze over much of the western half of Tennessee and northern Mississippi.
The weather statement covers an area mostly west of Interstate 65, extending from the Kentucky border to the Alabama line. The smoke could linger until Friday, the statement said.
The smoke is a mixture of gases and fine particles from burning trees and other plants, the Tennessee Emergency Management Agency said.
— ASSOCIATED PRESS"
Previous article from: http://tennessean.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070524/NEWS01/705240374/1006/NEWS ; scroll down to find it (first section is about a stabbing)
Another article about mid-state haze: http://www.tennessean.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070515/NEWS01/705150358/1090/news
About Mississippi:
http://www.sunherald.com/306/story/62361.html
"JACKSON, Miss. -- The smoke from wildfires in Georgia and Florida has drifted westward into Mississippi, blanketing the state in a thick haze and causing confusion in residents who think fires are nearby.
"Everybody keeps thinking there's fires in the area," said Billy Crumpton, operations director of the Lee County Communications Center in northeast Mississippi, where smoke has been misinterpreted as a neighborhood blaze.
"It's pretty thick. When you are driving down (Highway) 45, you think there's a fire," he said."
PS: I can attest to that confusion as well as driving home from a visit with a friend we could see a thick blanket of haze and thought there was a fire going on. This occured at the top of a hill. It thinned out quite a bit as we descended again. This thus caused quite a bit of confusion. There was indeed no fire in the area. -- Marsbound2024 01:07, 28 May 2007 (UTC)
This article completely ignores the fact that wildfires are a natural process in southeastern coastal forests and swamps. According to [1]: "Fire is an important part of the Okefenokee ecosystem. Disruption of the naturally occurring fire regime has resulted in major changes in upland and wetland habitats in the Okefenokee ecosystem." The USDA Forest Service has this to say: "Fire is a natural process in many Apalachicola plant communities. Without fire, these communities change; the plants and animals unique to the original habitat maintained by fire are lost. Fox squirrels, gopher tortoises, red-cockaded woodpeckers, wiregrass and longleaf pines are just a few of the many species which depend on fire. [2]" It seems really biased by only describing the negative human aspect and not the positive effect on ecosystems. My guess is that the population of red-cockaded woodpeckers will increase once the fire has been extinguished. I suppose we will have to wait and see, and I think the article will need to include a section on how plants and animals benefited from the fire once its impact has been assessed. I think the article would be far more informative and accurate if it took into account the fact that this part of the country is fire-prone and adapted to it.
If a fire kills over 1700 people and hundreds of home it can be called a disaster. And while the long term ecology of wildfires is beneficial, I suggest you conduct an empathy test and light your damn self on fire to see how the local wild life on the scene enjoyed it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.194.222.152 ( talk) 19:48, 16 October 2015 (UTC)
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