WebDigger Wrote:
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> "The places now being ravaged are not forests or
> chaparral located somewhere out there, in the
> wilds. Instead the current wildfires demonstrate
> how easy it has become for fires to invade our
> suburbs and towns, with their 7-11s, gas stations
> and doctors’ offices, and lay them to waste. Where
> will this end? The prospects are disturbing." --
> [www.theguardian.com]
> /12/wildfires-are-striking-closer-and-closer-to-ci
> ties-we-know-how-this-will-end
>
> For those who want railroad-site "purity", here's
> your paragraph --
> "In October 1871, railway workers sparked a brush
> fire in northern Wisconsin, which swept into the
> city of Peshtigo and killed 1,500 people there and
> elsewhere across a gargantuan footprint of 1.2
> million acres. And in the great fires of 1910,
> fires burning across several Western states killed
> hundreds and razed a number of towns. People
> escaped by train as the fires virtually licked at
> their heels."

mother nature says, this is only the begining