Fire on this photo is what happend about 150 m from our house a year ago. Every year the hills in this region are burned by the sheep herders -he fact that is known even for newborns. There are letterally some of them that do this job -very old men. But every year nobody can find the delinquents. The only case was when the fire came very close to the villa of one great boss over here. The boss found that incendiary in a minute and the fire on our hill was finished for 2-3 years. Till the year ago.
Now I found a video about heroic firefighters in BBC:
Firefighters are battling to control a forest fire close to one of America's most famous wildlife reserves, Yosemite National Park.EVERYBODY, even the newborns, know that these fires burn the same firefighters to have work and to receive greatest money for their work.
Italian civic protection opend statistics about who burns the forests. About 1% are piromans, about 1% are not attentive persons that throw burning sigarettes, about 1% are the herders -something like this. I don't remember precise numbers. ALL THE REST is burned by firefighters to recive retribution for their work.
The HEROIC FIREFIGHTERS. Like in the video of BBC.
Americans tell about it for many years.
BUT every year nobody can find the delinquents.
6 comments:
Fires can be very scary. Firefighters are very brave and wonderful to help those in need.
--JB
I agree with you about it. A year ago it was really terrible here on our hill when the fire was not so far from our houses. The poor persons that live just under the place where the fire reached. And the firefighters were there ALL THE NIGHT!!! Till 3:00 -to spend that fire. And the herder maybe slept happily all the night....
Men are always living in fear of something; if it's not fire, it's water, earthquake, ghosts. Thanks God!
It's so, really. Everybody is afraid of something. Always. Unfortunatelly.
liudmila, we just spent ten days in bend, oregon, usa. millions of acres of ponderosa and lodge pole pine trees. bend is on the wrong side of the mountains which means desert-like conditions. most of the fires are caused by lightning. secondly, careless campers. the terrain is so difficult to navigate that usually helicopters drop chemicals on the fire directly and the fire fighters try to guess which way the fire will burn and dig ditches many miles away.
the sunsets here are beautiful but when the wind comes from the northwest a vast haze covers the local peaks. the haze is from the fires going on in california, more than 1000 miles away.
Oh my dear god! Chemicals on the heads of these poor beings!!! It's terrible!
Here the helicopters go to take water directly in the sea. From our places there are about 10 km direct flyght, I think. Once when the villa over here was some meters from the fire, they took water from the pull of the villa...
But it is terrible in any case -the fire. Specially for those who can't run away.
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