Wow, the rubber TRACTOR TIRES in this fire were still burning under the surface and started letting out embers when the (extremely strong) wings started up.
"That hot rubber that entombed those tires was blown away when the wind started on the sixth of November," Gardner said.
"[It] blew the rubber away, and after seven days of sitting there with no smoke, with no reported fire, with no concern to anybody that had seen it in the previous seven days, it spotted over the 200 feet of containment we had in place, and started the Mountain Fire," he said.