A wildfire, forest fire, bushfire, wildland fire or rural fire is an unplanned, uncontrolled fire in an area of combustible vegetation starting in rural and urban areas.[1]
Coverage[]
Documentary[]
One of the very first coverage of Wildfires is in the Life After People Documentary within 1 year after people, it is mainly featured here. The show gave a common cause of wildfires as sparked by lightning strikes, and without humans to battle the fires, it rage unchecked. It is stated that the cities and neighborhoods full of abandoned buildings, wild grasses, and dry debris are the prime fuel for the flames. It is then shown that the city of Chicago burns (on the train tracks, the wooden Victorians of San Francisco are now useful as kindling, and the Colosseum overlooks the burning city of Rome, just as it once did during the reign of the Roman Emperor, Nero.
When fires burn structures to the ground, charred building structures and ash produced from burnt wood releases a variety of nutrients into the soil, giving new generations of plants the materials they need to grow, survive and thrive.
Extinctions[]
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wildfires would ignite, entire forests would burst into flames
At the end, the fires were mentioned to start as a result of the meteor strike from flying rock pieces that ignite entire forests. The smoke would mix with impact dust to create a global winter to envelop the earth.
Series[]
In the series, it plays an important role in certain cities and areas.
Atlanta[]
Atlanta on fire.
In Outbreak, wildfires occurred across Atlanta in 50 years after people when the kudzu have turned into a tinderbox, causing a single thunderstorm to burn though the kudzu to the entire city of Atlanta, even lighting up the Confederate Memorial Carving.
Los Angeles[]
Wildfires in Los Angeles
In The Capital Threat and Home Wrecked Home, it plays an important role on the city of Los Angeles in 10-15 years after people. The wildfires were set off within the hills by the lightning strike and cause the entirety of Los Angeles to burn, first the suburbs, and then into Downtown. Steel structures like the U.S. Bank Tower, Walt Disney Concert Hall, and the Hollywood Sign survive the fire. One can survive the temperature of over 2,000 degrees Fahrenheit without degradation, the other is made of stainless steel panels causing it to be virtually fireproof, while the latter is made out of steel itself, even though the paint feed the scorching fire flames. Many wooden structure didn't survive the wildfire like in the case of Grauman's Chinese Theatre where the rotting wood is engulfed in mere seconds. The wildfire also affect the future of the structure like in the case of the Stahl House, although the steel frame survive (and the glass windows likely break), the vegetation that binds the soil is engulfed by the flames to burned, which, and affects the fate of the house, such as storm erosion in 75 years after people.
Rural Pennsylvania[]
The fire explodes the fireworks factory.
In Holiday Hell, wildfires occurred after 20 years in rural Pennsylvania were a fireworks factory is located, the cause is dry heat in late summer. The fire cause the powder to ignite after it lick through the cracks in the walls of the bunker, causing the fireworks to explode at once and presumably destroy the factory from explosion.
Northern California[]
Fire is needed for the coast redwood to survive.
The last time where wildfires occurred in the series is in Sky's the Limit in 6 month after people, with the locale being Northern California, where the forest burns and destroy the trees except for the coast redwood because it can survive the fire, which needs it to grow because when the fire burns their leaves, it triggers a signal in the trees to sprout new limbs and shoots.
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