A fire incident can occur any time

I've been chatting with Kenn offline and in person and I also commented on the recent post on the club FB page about the Topsfield fire. It can't be proven or disproven but I suspect the Amesbury fire might have been material ejected from either my rocket that landed near where it started or another one that landed close by.
I did find some material mixed in with my dog barf that could have held a flame or a spark long enough for it to reach the ground.
I also discovered that dog barf, while it will not hold a flame, will in fact smoulder for quite a while if compressed into a tight ball hand held to a lighter flame long enough.
But absent further data, the only thing I can come up with is that something from one of our rockets carried a spark to the ground.
For my part going forward, I'm going to be inspecting my dog barf for any foreign material that might hold a spark, and also try to break up any "clumps". I'll also be putting a couple of squares of Estes wadding in first when in doubt. Estes Pro Series wadding won't hold a spark, let alone a flame, so it should help prevent anything in the dog barf from igniting.
It's a good thing that the club had some firefighting equipment handy, but I heard it was hard to lug the sprayers over to the fire. Justin O'Neill and I were messaging about the possibility of is getting some smaller backpack style sprayers, but the ones he was looking at only hold about 2.5 gallons. Water weighs about eight pounds a gallon, so five gallons would be 40# and change. I feel like I could carry that much if I had to.
We got lucky. That fire was spreading fast. A lot of things were done right but I think some could have been done better. Here's hoping it doesn't happen again, bit I don't think it would hurt for us to have a look at our equipment and preparedness. Perhaps we could consult the pros by reaching out to the fire departments in the town's where we fly for some advice, maybe even a little training.

Dry conditions aside, this Sat. is shaping up to be a good flying day! It feels like forever since we launched. Looking forward seeing you all.... and we'll be bringing a new recruit!

RD-ROX wrote:

Dry conditions aside, this Sat. is shaping up to be a good flying day! It feels like forever since we launched. Looking forward seeing you all.... and we'll be bringing a new recruit!

For now,  Windy indicates the wind direction will be toward the chickens!

tlainhart wrote:

...I also commented on the recent post on the club FB page about the Topsfield fire

No idea that we had a FB page.

Don't you mean "Meta" page? Har-de-har-har-har!