Pipeline Fire in Flagstaff, AZ 2022 [OC]

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Kind of looks like the mount saint Helen’s eruption…
Funny you say that. I’m currently living closer to Mount Rainier, and its top 3 in the US for eruption potential. It also looks exactly like Mount Saint Helens did before it went sideways…
Does Pipeline refer to an area or is it an oil pipeline fire?
The name refers to the area/trail, but its called that due to a gas pipeline that runs through it. To my knowledge, none of that infrastructure actually caught on fire, but it was certainly a risk! The insane amount of smoke was entirely from a super dry forest that lit up light a tinderbox. It was accidentally started by an unhoused man living in the surrounding woods who was trying to burn toilet paper… Since the wind speed was high that day, it spread quickly. I watched the fire climb from the base of that peak to the top in like 30 minutes.