The Day the Sky Fell Down

[JP Michael]

From a contemporary witness of the devastating bushfires in Australia yesterday, a quote which caught my eye as much as it will catch many of yours:

"The sky dropped down, it was like fire falling out of the sky and it lit up everything between me and the river, and everything burned."

Sourced from Bushfire Survival Stories, ABC News.

This is the account of one man from a localised, catastrophic bushfire event. This event did not require planetary catastrophism. However, how much more could such a statement be made of catastrophism and fires caused by such greater forces as a planetary collision? And is that not what we read in mythic sources of such global, fiery infernos?

[Maol]

There were reports of burning debris falling on ships 500 miles at sea off the Oregon coast during the 1933 Tillamook Burn, a catastrophic forest fire in Oregon that consumed 1,400 km2 of old growth Douglas fir.

[antosarai]

... localised, catastrophic bushfire event => mythic sources of global, fiery infernos...

A tale never loses in the telling?