Samson went and caught three hundred foxes, and took firebrands, and turned tail to tail, and put a firebrand in the midst between every two tails.
"The wheat-fields of that section of Palestine extended continuously for thirty miles,"[4] and the fire that ensued was similar to those devastating fires seen occasionally in California, where hundreds of homes and everything else are destroyed.  How silly is the critical complaint that the green olive trees would not burn!