I knew of a Cal Fire captain that went rogue on a major fire in SoCal, lit a backfire inn a bad spot without telling anyone in that division and it hit a house up canyon pretty hard and killed a local government firefighter.
I almost had that happen to me but it was my own Captain that set a backfire that almost took out me and two other, one of whom was the Chief of the neighboring department!
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u/bingo__rocks 2d ago
Light off a backfire