Burning in rugged terrain, this fire was very difficult to fight and on August 20, the fire advanced from the south towards the small town of Cooke City, Montana and continued to threaten the town for several more weeks.
So too has rugged terrain, Eric Peterson, fire chief of Santa Barbara County, told AP. "We have three sides of that box that we're working on right now.
But as winds let up and firefighters made modest progress on Thursday and Friday, the wildfire arson investigators began visiting the rugged area where the fire was first spotted, searching for clues, officials said.
These metal models, however, are far more rugged and safer to fire.
The model has part of the Declaration of Independence written on the barrel, and seems more rugged and safer to fire.
Some of the images on the screens were striking: imposing brick dissolving into walls of fire; a realistic, rugged harbor in the driving rain.
So it was Tuesday night in a canyon of dry timber, when 21 firefighters who had been mopping up a small fire in the rugged North Cascades found themselves scrambling to get inside their shelters after the fire exploded beyond control.
The blaze was burning in steep, rugged terrain away from homes, fire officials said.
Rugged terrain also contributed to asynchronous fire years among basins and longer fire return intervals compared with other ponderosa pine and mixed conifer forests in the region.
A decade later, when I was a more experienced traveler, I expected my volcano guide on the once-cannibalistic South Pacific island, Tanna, in Vanuatu, to be some sort of rugged bushman, able to spark fires by smacking rocks together, or hunt down dinner with a blow dart gun.
