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Muck Fires

Muck fires

By: Kane Rylander

Tangerine By: Edward Bloor

What is the problem with muck fires?

The real problem is that muck fires are EVERYWHERE! (in Florida) And once they light, they don’t go out.

  • They can last for weeks at a time
  • Also, the smoke is extremely damaging to the lungs

In the book when they try to put it out

it makes a swamp like area which mosquito's love and it attracts them.

What is the cause of this?

  • The cause of muck fires is because they are made of lignite.
  • Lignite is a soft, brown coal showing a little bit of plant structure.
  • It is in the middle between bituminous coal and peat, which never runs out. It is always underground which is why the fires are underground.

Fun facts

What is the impact

on the enviornment?

  • It can also destroy forest animal's homes, which are mostly trees.
  • it can also make the animals go extinct

In the book the muck fire

burnt all of the trees

down

  • Muck fires start when lightning strikes a dry area where there is lignite, a brown coal, or rosebud. Also, when people litter in a wooded area (forests) it makes a brown muck that sinks to the ground floor and
  • the lignite keeps burning down underground until it hits water.
  • Muck is soil rich in carbon-based compounds from dead plants and organisms, usually more than a third of the soil content. Then it clamps together to make lignite.

Bibliography

  • "Florida's Muck Fires Can Burn for Weeks - USATODAY.com." Florida's Muck Fires Can Burn for Weeks - USATODAY.com. N.p., n.d. Web. 29 May 2014.
  • "Florida Natural Disaster Preparedness." Florida Disaster. N.p., n.d. Web. 29 May 2014.
  • "Muck Fires." - Can You Stand the Heat?? N.p., n.d. Web. 26 May 2014.
  • "What Is Lignite - Google Search." What Is Lignite - Google Search. N.p., n.d. Web. 28 May 2014.
  • "Muck Fires." - Can You Stand the Heat?? N.p., n.d. Web. 26 May 2014.
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