FROM THE FIREFIGHTERS battling the Paradise Fire in Olympic National Park:

“This video (BELOW) is pretty amazing footage of the way the dried lichen has been carrying the #ParadiseFire.

“You can see the fire climb the tree carried by lichen, and then as the lichen burns up, it drops off the tree and carries the fire to the ground.

“That’s how much of the fire has moved forward — carried through the tree tops by lichen and continuing the spread as it falls to the ground.”

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