[meteorite-list] Fireball News Cast video causes fires in the woods

[GeoZay at aol.com]

>>Here is a video link of the fireball  from last night. An some witness 
took some images of some fires that were caused  by the fall. Ill let you 
guess decide what you think of this.<<

the  reporters were doing okay up until the phone in report. Then that had 
to been  the most boring phone in news report I've ever heard. :O) I'm quite 
confident  that the burning trees had nothing to do with the meteor. 
Probably lightning  caused it some time ago. Judging by the large sized tree trunk 
in one of those  photos, it took some doing to get it to burn all the way 
thru. The interior of a  live tree is wet, so it wasn't something that just 
caught on fire a few hours  ago and did that much burning. I've seen trees 
under more favorable burning  conditions take days to burn this much. Anyhow, 
I wouldn't connect the meteor  with the fires in any way. 
GeoZay