Where I live it is very common to do controlled burns in the spring time. The target is plains area that may include vegetation such as a forest area. You time

Where I live it is very common to do controlled burns in the spring time. The target is plains area that may include vegetation such as a forest area. You time it with the best conditions you can get: 1. Low wind day 2. Rain or humid days following burn 3. Moderate temps because it's early in the season Then you just section off the land and work in fire teams. Typically part of the team has watchers that observe the boundaries of the burn at all times, and such boundaries are cut down and mowed/scalped to the dirt several swaths wide so that a worst-case burn could not jump it (see again, low wind)