Over the past few years, wildfires in several parts of the world have dominated the news.
The first six and a half months of this year saw almost 346,000 hectares of grassland, scrub and forest consumed by fire in Europe, three times the average between 2006 and last year, which was the worst ever for summer wildfires along Turkey’s Mediterranean coast.
The California wildfire seasons in 2020 and last year burned the highest and second-highest numbers of acres of land since recordkeeping began. So far this year, authorities in the US state have battled almost 4,700 wildfires.
Given this alarming trend,
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Fire at Yushan spreads across 52 hectares of forest
By Jason Pan / Staff reporter
A forest fire in Yushan National Park (玉山國家公園) that has been burning since last weekend has spread, with the Forestry Bureau and local authorities deploying firefighters and aircraft in the area of Taiwan’s highest mountain at up to 3,952m.
The fire was first reported on Sunday, when about 1.5 hectares of forest were on fire, and has since spread to bushland in higher altitudes. As of yesterday, 52 hectares were on fire.
Chiayi Forest District Office deputy director Lee Ting-chung (李定忠) said that it was hard to predict when firefighters would be able to put out the flames.
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