When wood in a fire gets hot enough, the cellulose inside starts to turn into gas. This is when we see smoke coming out of the wood, sometimes even before that piece of wood has burst into flames.

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Mountain fire fouls the air, forcing a wood-burning ban just as fall cooldown begins. A helicopter makes a water drop on the Mountain Fire burning in the hilliside near Santa Paula.