Reed stands are brush fire headache for New York
Wednesday, June 20, 2012
If you thought New York wasn't likely to experience wildland fires, guess again. Staten Island has had several thousand of them since the mid-1990s. The brush fires are fed by large stands of reeds known as phragmites. Phragmites (pronounced frag-MITE-eez) are an invasive grass found in wetlands. They can grow from 6 to 20 feet high and can burn at the rate of one to three football fields a minute. Flames from the brush fires can reach lengths of 56 to 83 feet depending on wind speed.
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