Science
How to Kill a Zombie Fire – WIRED
Underground peat fires refuse to die, even when flooded with water. So scientists developed a new weapon to put them down for good.
Thats because deluging a zombie isnt guaranteed to quickly kill it. Say youre pumping massive quantities across a peatland, like firefighters did in North Carolina. That doesnt mean the water is getting to the right places as it trickles underground. It creates a channel, and the fire in that channel is suppressed, but then the water doesn’t go anywhere else, Rein says. Other parts of the fire can fester untouched. And so the zombie lives on.
Suppression of the experimental peat fire
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