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by mahkeiro 5 days ago
They are firebreaks everywhere in this forest, you can see them from satellite images, but the fire can jump, and it's mainly used as a defense line by firefighters. I was in this forest 2 weeks ago and the ground which is layered with pine needles was so dry that it was just a question of time.
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Do you not just make them much wider?
Embers can jump kilometers when its windy. At some point it gets kind of silly, no?

Here in Sweden we had a large fire that jumped a lake.

arsonists can walk.