That's not a simile

[galadhelsul]

The metro today has an article about a fire near the blue line. Part of it is:

The fire burned quickly because the area was covered in tall marsh grass, Menard said. "That stuff goes up like wildfire."

It does indeed go up like wildfire. Especially when it actually is a wildfire.

Comments

[ilai]

Heh. Wasn't it started by a welding accident though?

[okosut]

A welding accident? That's almost like a manufacturing catastrophe!

[galadhelsul]

Or maybe a book accident!

[okosut]

Amazingly (or perhaps not), that still makes me laugh.

[lauradi7]

Jesse Benton, spokesperson for Ron Paul's presidential campaign, was talking about its internet following and said: "This is a grassfire movement."
Is that a grass-roots movement that's on fire?