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2. If one assumes with Wolbach et al. that the fireball could have started fires at a range of 1000 kilometers in suitable vegetation it can be estimated that only about one in six impacts in the oceans would have been favorably located for ignition of a major wildfire.
3. C. Chandler , Fire in Forestry ( Wiley , New York , 1983 ), vol. 1 .