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Showing posts with label wild fire. Show all posts
Showing posts with label wild fire. Show all posts

Wednesday, October 31, 2007

Boy confesses to starting the California wildfire!

The California wildfire that had destroyed so many homes and had killed about 14 or so people was started by a kid playing with the matchbox. The police have sent the boy home and an investigation is pending. It seems that the 'inferno' was aa creation of man rather than nature or a short circuit as it was originally suspected to be.
We have all been told by our parents not to plaY with matches since the toodler age and yet this has happened.

The inferno in question has destroyed 2,100 homes and blackened 809 square miles from Los Angeles to the Mexican border last week. Seven deaths were blamed directly on the fires, six evacuees died of natural causes and one person died of a fall. All of this devastation, it seems can be laid at the doorstep of one small boy. The question is whether s mere 'sorry' can really make up for the tragic loss of life that these group of wildfires had wrought on the suhshine state. We even saw the terminator man pitching in to help the californian residents. Personally I think that charges should be bought agains the boy's parents for what the boy did as the ultimate responsibility is theirs to bear.

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Friday, October 26, 2007

California, breathing again?


This encounter with the wildfires has given many a Californian a reason to think twice about polluting the atmosphere again. Of course, I am sorry about the whole episode where countless homes were burnt to the ground but a week of inhaling impure air and smoke must have given many a Californian a reason to think twice about the pollution that the United states is guilty of.
But that is totally a different topic and one that will be definitely covered later on. For the Californians it must be a relief to head back home as the danger of the wildfires has decreased. But that just leaves one with the questions how these fires originated and why were they do devastating as never before. For the former the investigations are ongoing but the common culprits are either nature by way of lightning or man made by way of smokes. As for the later, it has been aggravated to the near drought conditions that California has suffered this summer and with the top soil loose, the hot winds were a certainty, it was just a matter of when. Lets all hope that the worst is over for now!
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