"But it was erratic. it was erratic fire, erratic passion.
"This is very intense and erratic fire behavior," said Paul Palmiotto, assistant chief of forest protection at the Florida Division of Forestry.
The area remains under red flag warning through Wednesday, as the dry, gusty, Santa Ana wind conditions continue to cause erratic fire behavior and fast-moving flames.
Drought conditions have increasingly affected the state over the past decade, causing erratic fire behavior and making efforts to contain the flames much more difficult.
Firefighters saved about 398 homes from the fast-moving, erratic fire that hit the small seaside village and the Bega valley on Sunday afternoon.
When the drink-damaged Calum looks out into the alley behind his shabby Toronto room, he doesn't see "the erratic fire escapes and the resting garbage" but rather a cliff in distant Cape Breton where the blackfish are jumping near the gravestone of his ancestor, Calum Ruadh.
Jon Irula, a paramedic firefighter based in Lake Havisu in Arizona told BBC Breakfast: "We know that because of the thunderstorms and the dry heat they were experiencing very erratic fire behaviour and dealing with fatigue".
It just so happens that we recently published a book of sports poems made from the utterances of professional athletes: Erratic Fire, Erratic Passion: The Poetry of Sportstalk.
Throughout mountain areas on Thursday there's a greater risk for large fire plumes, which can cause erratic fire behavior.
In recent years, the models have been rendered practically obsolete, unable to project how erratic Western fires have become, making tactical decisions more difficult for fire bosses and the fire lines less safe for crews in the field.
In Israel, the military said Israeli tanks that are deployed in the Golan Heights, which the Israelis seized from Syria in the 1967 Arab-Israeli war, had made a direct hit on a Syrian mobile artillery launcher on Monday after consecutive days of erratic mortar fire coming from the Syrian side of the armistice line.
