Your coverage of the fires threatening Australia reminded me of when I visited a friend in Sydney more than 20 years ago (“Evacuations ordered as 150 bushfires rage on two coasts in Australia (https://www.businesslive.co.za/bd/world/asia/2019-11-13-evacuations-ordered-as-150-bushfires-rage-on-two-coasts-in-australia/)”, November 13).
Next to his suburb was a large open area, part of a university campus, and a large wooded area where the ground was carpeted with 5cm-10cm of wood bark, as dry as tinder. ..
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