Spring has sprung in Central New York, but that also sparks a seasonal hazard.
"The snow just compressed everything, and now all the dead stuff is just kind of lying down on the ground and it's been compressed. A bunch of warm days, it just dries out and it's like perfect," said Kip Williams, a lieutenant in the Fayetteville Fire Department.
These brush fires aren't like the massive ones you see in other parts of the country. Trees here are rarely dry enough to catch fire, although crews say it's the unpredictability of the outdoors that makes them dangerous.
"A little fire that doesn't look like anything, you add a lot of wind to it, and it's like a blow torch. It just kind of goes," said Williams. "And if there's a lot of fuel, what we call it, it could just take right off."
And there's a lot of different tools that they use to fight these outdoor fires, from wearing lightweight jackets to using rakes and axes, and even sometimes carrying their water right on their backs.
"We're probably going to be away from the road, probably not going to have hydrants," said Williams, "so taking an engine, yeah, it has a lot of water, and we can use it to refill smaller equipment, and that's typically what would happen."