Not so good a morning in my country: forest fires.
By marguicha
@marguicha (215331)
Chile
February 3, 2023 6:31am CST
Good morning friends.
We have a big heat wave here and that helps tohave huge forest fires. Some of them might have been started intentionally 
, some fores start due to stupidity of people (light cigarettes thrown out of a car, campers that don´t check out the bonfires they make). The heat and the wind do the rest.
And there are some places that are being evacuated. And some people lose all they have
Every too warm summer means fires. And there are places where it is virtually impossible to put them off in spite of all the new methods of fire fighting.
I´m worried, friends.
I know that many parts of the world have these problems during the warm season. Let us hope that fires can be controlled and that no lives are lost.
, some fores start due to stupidity of people (light cigarettes thrown out of a car, campers that don´t check out the bonfires they make). The heat and the wind do the rest.
And there are some places that are being evacuated. And some people lose all they have
Every too warm summer means fires. And there are places where it is virtually impossible to put them off in spite of all the new methods of fire fighting.
I´m worried, friends.
I know that many parts of the world have these problems during the warm season. Let us hope that fires can be controlled and that no lives are lost.13 people like this
12 responses
@marguicha (215331)
• Chile
3 Feb 23
@LadyDuck It has been a shock to watch the news
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@marguicha (215331)
• Chile
3 Feb 23
Fire is horrible. People are being evacuated by the Navy.
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@LadyDuck (457918)
• Switzerland
3 Feb 23
@marguicha This is very serious, I am sorry for those people.
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@marguicha (215331)
• Chile
3 Feb 23
It seems that we are going to have to ask for international help with planes that throw water.
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@marguicha (215331)
• Chile
4 Feb 23
@JudyEv We also have them here but they are not enough.
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@JudyEv (325594)
• Rockingham, Australia
4 Feb 23
@marguicha We have them here. They seem to be very effective.
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@koopharper (7476)
• Canada
3 Feb 23
Forest fires are scary and do a lot of damage. The little town we live in is largely abandoned because of a big one back in the fifties. It destroyed the local logging businesses and did a great deal of damage to the local farms. Our nearest neighbor says his family lost 80 acres of farmland to the blaze. There a three abandoned homesteads along our road back in the bush that date from that event. We are the only ones living back in the bush here now.
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@marguicha (215331)
• Chile
3 Feb 23
Some trees do not die completly and they sprout again. But it takes years.
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@koopharper (7476)
• Canada
3 Feb 23
@marguicha Here the Aspen trees will bounce back after a few years. Their roots don't burn hardly at all. Other trees can take decades because in a fire like that the roots burn deep into the ground.
@marguicha (215331)
• Chile
3 Feb 23
I part of the country has been declared zone of catastrophe.
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@JamesHxstatic (29242)
• Eugene, Oregon
3 Feb 23
My state of Oregon, along with other western states has been plagued by fires each summer, though last year was not as bad as the previous two or three. I hope the fires there get controlled quickly.
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@marguicha (215331)
• Chile
3 Feb 23
What I just heard on TV is that the government would have to ask for international help as we don´t have enough planes to throw water to the fires.
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@LindaOHio (155961)
• United States
3 Feb 23
I'm sorry about the wildfires. The wildfires in the US have been controlled by the abundance of rain that we've been having.
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@LindaOHio (155961)
• United States
4 Feb 23
@marguicha We had severe droughts too but some of that was alleviated by the rain.
@marguicha (215331)
• Chile
3 Feb 23
We have a terrible drought here. No rain at all.
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@rebelann (111129)
• El Paso, Texas
4 Feb 23
I pray this fire can be put out quickly. Come late spring to early summer parts of California and Colorado could get fires and if it gets really bad then parts of New Mexico will as well. It seems to happen every year.
@FourWalls (62076)
• United States
3 Feb 23
Oh, that’s so sad. I hope they can get them under control, and no loss of life happens.
I hope they can get them under control, and no loss of life happens.1 person likes this
@RasmaSandra (73326)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
3 Feb 23
That does not sound good, I hope those fires can be controlled, Wishing all the best and hoping they don't get worse,
