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When the Orange County AQMD (air quality management district) threatened to curb\u00a0beach\u00a0bonfire traditions<\/a> by prohibiting wood-burning fires that serve millions of tourists annually at Southern California beaches, local governments and citizens were steaming. They said that the bonfire is an important cultural experience that must remain intact. Fire as entertainment in California includes beach bonfires, state parks campfires, and even fire entertainers and dancers such as those appearing at the Butterfly Festival in Mariposa this weekend or the Persian “jump over the fire”\u00a0celebration\u00a0in Berkeley each spring. At Humboldt State U. in Arcata today the Student Association for Fire Ecology (SAFE) rounds out an April\u00a0lecture series with Clint McKay’s\u00a0presentation, “Fire: Essential to California Indian Life”. While that event is as sit-down, academic look at fire, if you head to Columbia State Historic Park you can catch the Fireman’s Muster <\/a>on May 2, 2015. It’s a lively re-enactment of putting out fires using antique trucks and equipment. And for someone like me who finds therapy in\u00a0barbecuing\u00a0outdoors on a\u00a0grill\u00a0you get to know the characteristics of fire real fast. The flame, the heat and the meat\u00a0all work together to create a desirable cooking situation.\u00a0\u00a0Here’s a little\u00a0fire science<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" When the Orange County AQMD (air quality management district) threatened to curb\u00a0beach\u00a0bonfire traditions by prohibiting wood-burning fires that serve millions of tourists annually at Southern California beaches, local governments and citizens were steaming. They said that the bonfire is an important cultural experience that must remain intact. Fire as entertainment in California includes beach bonfires, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20190"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20190\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}