There's nothing 'wild' about most wildfires. Humans start them and have made them more dangerous

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Aug 13, 2026, 4:40 pm123 ptsTrending
A wildfire needs a name long before anyone knows what caused it. When the pines of the Gironde in southwestern France caught fire in July, the fire was reported within hours under the name of the ground it was burning. By the time it had taken 40,000 hectares (99,000 acres), that name was fixed in every…

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