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

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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. By the time it had taken 40,000 hectares (99,000 acres), that name was fixed in every bulletin in Europe.

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  • 01A wildfire needs a name long before anyone knows what caused it.
  • 02When 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.
  • 03By the time it had taken 40,000 hectares (99,000 acres), that name was fixed in every bulletin in Europe.
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