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[DesertDrifter]

The dense second-growth plantations of pine that appear to be unthinned and un-managed are like gasoline when dry. They look to have serotinous cones so are thus from a fire-adapted ecosystem. The combination of not managing the fuels and prolonged drought is lethal to most temperate forests unless they are allowed to burn often and lightly so that when they do burn, it will be low intensity and survivable by the mature trees.

Kind of looks to me like they protected their forest to death, which is unusual in that neck of the woods, where overharvest happened and then was over-reacted against in later decades. Sort of like the American West.
https://books.google.com/books?id=G4kUfc5JswAC&pg=PA96&lpg=PA96&dq=forest+fire+frequency+chile&source=bl&ots=5K6Cn4N0Cs&sig=1EvKu8RP75_FPm8jjaH9zp2jye0&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi_0vqz9-rRAhUKilQKHRqqAGcQ6AEINTAE#v=onepage&q=forest%20fire%20frequency%20chile&f=false

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Grenfell Tower fire: huge blaze breaks out in 24-storey apartment block in London

Several people are trapped in a blaze at the tower block in Latimer Road, near Notting Hill, that broke out in the early hours of Wednesday morning

* London fire - live updates
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/live/2017/jun/14/grenfell-tower-major-fire-london-apartment-block-white-city-latimer-road

* What we know so far
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/jun/14/what-we-know-so-far-about-the-london-tower-block-fire

* Fire engulfs the Grenfell - in pictures

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/gallery/2017/jun/14/tower-block-blaze-in-london-in-pictures

VIDEO: Fire engulfs west London tower block

Bonnie Malkin and Alice Ross

Wednesday 14 June 2017 14.23 AEST

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/jun/14/fire-24-storey-grenfell-tower-block-white-city-latimer-road-london

"‘The Greatest Forest Disaster in Our History’: Wildfires Tear Through Chile"

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Fast-moving wildfires devour buildings, spur evacuations in Northern California

"‘The Greatest Forest Disaster in Our History’: Wildfires Tear Through Chile"

By Joe Sterling, Paul P. Murphy and Eliott C. McLaughlin, CNN

Updated 1954 GMT (0354 HKT) October 9, 2017

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Flames rise from the remains of a burned commercial building in Santa Rosa, California, on Monday.

http://edition.cnn.com/2017/10/09/us/california-fires/index.html

More that 1,500 homes and buildings already .. terrible.

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Extreme weather sees residents battling a cyclone in Darwin and bushfires in NSW and Victoria

"‘The Greatest Forest Disaster in Our History’: Wildfires Tear Through Chile"

Toni Hetherington
March 18, 2018 9:29pm

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/kids-news/extreme-weather-sees-residents-battling-a-cyclone-in-darwin-and-bushfires-in-nsw-and-victoria/news-story/eed6fcff6fc2a29c02459f5ebf37a9a3

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Fires destroy houses, cattle in Victoria

19 Mar, 2018 5:00am


A house has been burned down south of Cobden as bushfires burn in Victoria's
south west. Photo / AAP

Rick Goodman

Around a dozen homes, plus farming buildings, have been destroyed by bushfires,
likely caused by lightning in "dynamic" weather conditions, in southwestern Victoria.

Hundreds of beef and dairy cattle have also been destroyed, and 40,000ha of land burnt.
More: http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=12015411