Except it wasn’t. The Lachman fire hadn’t been fully extinguished. It had just disappeared underground, where it continued to smolder, burning through buried organic material below those eight acres in an unsettlingly surreptitious pattern that is known to most fire scientists and firefighters but that civilians are only now beginning to appreciate.
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