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Greece to california, once the fires are burning, there's very little can do if you are honest, and investing in more and more fire suppression is obviously not the solution because of those countries like australia would have solved the problem. there are examples out there, interestingly enough in portugal, from western australia examples from other parts of the world, australia as well, where exactly that, managing of fuel type and structure, in peacetime, or closer to nature, forestry, cover, anything where people go back, stay on the land, break up the fuel continuity and availability, we...

We see now, you're kind of helpless. so the only approach that would work as we cannot influence the weather nor the terrain is to manage the vegetation, and we have three elements that we look at, record fuel of course, not vegetation. if we can manipulate or manage that to create a landscape that is more resilient, more continuity of fuel, then we might come to a point where we can live with these fires and our firefighters have a chance to fight them. �* ., , firefighters have a chance to fight them. �* . , , , them. are there any places around them. are there any places around the worl...

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>> we are seeing back urns and we will try to show you what has been happening overnight. yesterday evening they lit this back burn to try to protect them pray play defense on these sequoia trees that have been here 3000 years. some 500 of them and they are lighting fires in a protective ring. firefighters tell us the fires are burning hotter and longer and fire season is year- round. take a listen. >> the fire season is longer and hotter and firefighters are exhausted. we've been fighting fires for months already and it is july with months to go. >> reporter: to compound it, this is high tour...

Conditions. >> the climate is making that fire season longer, is making it harder. it's making firefighters exhausted, you know, we've been fighting fires for months already this july. we still have many months to go. no it's a 300 firefighters now on scene working with the fire that has burned to 1600 acres and 1500 people are evacuating, as you mentioned, from nearby communities. it's not clear how many of those folks are able to get back to their -- officials think that they do have a handle on it when it comes to many of the sequoia trees in the past we've had to actually grabbed the trees...