A towering heap of timber was set afire at approximately 6:30pm on Thursday, November 29. The massive pile of fallen trees, approximately 100 feet by 20 feet in area and over 15 feet high in parts, was the product of the clearing of roughly an acre of land at the entrance to the Pine Island Subdivision in Ponchatoula. The heap had been drying in arid south Louisiana conditions over the course of a…