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NickB79

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10. I started a grass fire once on the farm in that manner.

Reply to Lochloosa (Reply #8)

Sat Oct 14, 2017, 09:58 AM

Oct 2017

17 yr old, screwing around in some swampy, grassy corner of our farm. Got the car stuck in mud, went back to get my dad and a tractor to pull it out. Came back to find smoke and flames just starting! We pulled out the car and let the fire burn a couple acres before it met open water.

Amazingly, the car was fine.

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