Beck launched into a nearly 15 minute monologue which his website, The Blaze, estimated contained 2,640 words.
The blaze, estimated at 4,620 acres, was considered 50% contained a week after being sparked by a campfire.
The InciWeb fire information website on Thursday reports that about 550 firefighters are battling the blaze estimated at 4,900 acres.
For one thing, the proximity of people to forests makes it more likely that a cigarette or a lawn mower spark, for example, might ignite a blaze; an estimated 90percentt of wildfires are caused by humans.
Fed by high winds and unseasonable temperatures, the blaze affected an estimated 50,000 acres of land in Gran Canaria and 37,000 acres in Tenerife, though officials said 20 to 50percentt of that area was actually burned.
The blaze is currently estimated to be burning on more than 300 acres, according to The Denver Post.
The blaze was initially estimated at an acre or less, but a wind shift about 2 p.m. sent embers flying a quarter-mile north across the freeway, where they landed in dry brush and sparked another fire, Stewart said.
Damage from the blaze in Centreville is estimated at more than $600,000, police said.
Small fires are not unheard of in Greenland during summer but for such a large blaze – this one is estimated to cover 1,200 hectares – to burn for so long is believed to be unusual.
Despite the work of more than 3,000 firefighters and the expenditure of an estimated $15 million, the blaze, known as the Wallow Fire, was zero percent contained on Thursday morning, meaning that it continued to have the potential to extend in any direction.
In all, 12 firefighting planes and nine helicopters were battling the blazes near Athens, which were estimated to have destroyed more than 30,000 acres of forest, farming fields and olive groves, according to the state television network NET.
