[QUOTE="roadkill, post: 4890584]and that is how many of the forest fires get started...lightening strikes..we just lost a whole town here in western Canada...Fort McMurry...to a forest fire[/QUOTE]
Hate to say this... The Fort Mac fire was human-started. Either a hot exhaust pipe from an ATV or some dumb idiot not putting a camp fire out or even worse, throwing a cigarette butt. There were no reports of lightning strikes in the area when the fire started.