How park rangers use fire to protect the Everglades

How helicopters set the Everglades on fire

Burn boss Jon Wallace demonstrates how potassium permanganate spheres injected with glycol ignite thirty seconds after release to start prescribed burns.

Dropping Exploding Ping Pong Balls to Start Fires

Jon Wallace showcases a specialized pneumatic launcher used by crews on airboats to shoot chemical ignition spheres into unreachable sawgrass.

The Handheld Ping Pong Fire Launcher

The two-step method to wipe out invasive trees

Firefighters explain why spraying invasive melaleuca trees triggers seed release, requiring a follow-up controlled fire to destroy the seeds before germination.

Why Invasive Trees Drop Seeds When Attacked

Flames moving across water at 30 feet tall

Fire crews describe how dense sawgrass allows 30-foot flames to advance at high speeds across deep water, stunning firefighters from around the country.

How Wildfires Burn in Three Feet of Water

[02:11] Dropping Exploding Ping Pong Balls to Start Fires
[02:46] The Handheld Ping Pong Fire Launcher
[05:41] Why Invasive Trees Drop Seeds When Attacked
[10:41] How Wildfires Burn in Three Feet of Water

How park rangers use fire to protect the Everglades

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