Mostly smokey

Mojo asks if the field burns ever get out of control. The short answer is: Not very often.

I have seen where the water truck that dampens the perimeter of a burn area may have missed a spot and the fire has crept out toward the road, and I have heard a story or two over the years of a jump, yet these are rarities. Meteorological conditions are considered, roads blocked and fires orchestrated. It is actually a spectacular sight to behold. Imagine an eighty-acre field where once the fire is sufficiently sparked, the plume rises five thousand feet into the air with the grass chaff and stubble is blackened in five minutes.