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A helicopter prepares to make a water drop as smoke billows along the Fraser River Valley near Lytton, British Columbia, Canada, on Friday, July 2, 2021. James MacDonald/Bloomberg/Getty Images
When it shows you from the sky it just freaks you out," says Riminta. "Our house is on the news", says Nikas, "it's the only house that hasn't been burned so far."
00:56 The mysterious overwintering forest fires
Monthly and seasonal forecast of temperature and rainfall anomalies that are expected to prevail over European and Mediterranean areas. Managing director John Morris junior invented a compound in a froth-forming liquid charged with carbonic acid gas which when sprayed on a fire prevents combustion by excluding oxygen. The Map is a collaborative effort between the U.S. Forest Service (USFS)-led Interagency Wildland Fire Air Quality Response Program and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
The data on the AirNow Fire and Smoke Map are intended to help individuals make decisions to protect their health during fires. In the Mediterranean, that has contributed to the fire season starting earlier and burning more land. Very Extreme Danger in several areas of #Spain 🇪🇸, in #Vaucluse 🇫🇷 and in #Beira Baixa in Portugal 🇵🇹
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Each incident is given a name to assist with managing multiple incidents. The name of an incident does not necessarily reflect the exact location of that incident. Incident Type United Kingdom: A record-breaking heatwave has spurred calls for the government to speed up efforts to adapt to a changing climate, especially after fires created the busiest day for London firefighters since bombs rained down on the city during World War II. First up on the show this week, reporter Geoff Marsh has been finding out about a very unusual type of forest fire that can seemingly rise from the dead.
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