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Originally Posted by freebeard
Don't fall into a burning ring of fire!
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I discovered this problem in middle school after having a bonfire at the place we'd camp every night during the summer.
We doused the fire in the morning and left. The next evening we returned and in the darkness could see a faint glow coming from a hole in the ground. We doused it again... we repeated this for a week until finally putting out the smoldering fire. There's still an indentation in the ground from where the dirt collapsed when the root system burned.
Similarly, we lost half our pile of bark dust once due to smoldering that persisted for a week. Soaking the pile for half an hour with the hose each time wasn't enough to extinguish it.