OSB fire

So the plywood plant caught fire again last night. It’s kind of an accepted industry standard that an OSB mill will catch fire several times a year. This time it was the storeys-high pile of sawdust out back, which is permanently on fire and flares up every spring. Everyone came to the party: the entire fire department, a helicopter, a track-hoe and even a bunch of forestry fire fighters with nothing else to put out. I wonder what it’s like to be the city fire-fighter in full bunker gear hosing down the same blaze as a twenty year old forestry kid in a hard hat and wool sweater.