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There's nothing 'wild' about most wildfires. Humans start them and have made them more dangerous

There's nothing 'wild' about most wildfires. Humans start them and have made them more dangerousWorldPing

A wildfire needs a name long before anyone knows what caused it. When the pines of the Gironde in southwestern France caught fire in July, the fire was reported within hours under the name of the ground it was burning.

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