![]() ![]() ![]() Even if you're nowhere near a wildfire, the smoke itself can travel halfway around the world and enter through your air intake and inside your house. That's how larger fires have been making their way well into the suburbs. ![]() The embers themselves travel as much as two kilometres ahead of the fire, or even further with favorable wind conditions. This five-story wooden structure on Switzerlands Corner Glacier by Bearth & Deplazes Architekten has an exterior look befitting its environment. When a wildfire does occur, the burning is more ferocious. ![]() Wildfires are also an increasing hazard for a combination of reasons, but the unavoidable and indisputable fact is that longer periods of hotter weather dry out the vegetation - trees, bushes, shrubs, and grass - more, and that dried-out vegetation is far more likely to catch fire due to lightning, sparks from trains, stray embers from campfires or any other open flame. ![]()
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