Posted on Aug 19, 2019

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I've been to Tenerife (one of the Canary Islands) and it is beautiful. I hope they can contain the fires as these forests on the Grand Canaria are old and very precious.

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CPT Jack Durish

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Living in a land of regular wildfires, I suppose I'm jaded. The black scars left in their wake are quickly healed in the next rainfall inasmuch as the ashes nourish the ground. Wild fires are just one arc on the circle of life...

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Lt Col Charlie Brown

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In some places that's true. In others, not so much. And if you live on an island, it's tough to find a place to go,.

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CPT Jack Durish

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Lt Col Charlie Brown - At least on an island, the fire has nowhere to go once it reaches the water's edge. Hopefully, the citizens of that island are smarter and more self reliant than those of New Orleans who didn't have the good sense to vacate the place as Katrina approached and were left sitting on their roofs, waiting for the government to save them.

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SGT Thomas Seward

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We were at Yellowstone a couple of weeks ago, and the marks from the fires from the past few years have all but disappeared. It’s once again green. It’s the same with the Uintah’s east of Salt Lake City that was all burned in 2017-2018. It’s beautiful and green rather than brown from all of the dead sagebrush and cedars that were there.

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