“Son of man set your face toward the south; preach against the south and prophesy against the forest land, the South Ezekiel 20:46
Anguilla
2020 Anguilla fire still burning: In a news release Tuesday, the V.I. Waste Management Authority said St. Croix’s Anguilla Landfill would remain closed to the public through Thursday due to the fire.
May 19, 2020; 11th Fire in 12 months Sparks up at Anguilla Landfill
June 2020: 13th Fire in a Year Shuts STX Landfill Thursday
Algeria
"Fires burning in the Atlas Mountains on the northern coast of Algeria turned deadly in late August 2007. Several people were killed by forest fires that were driven rapidly across the landscape by sirocco winds (hot dry winds that blow from Africa’s interior deserts toward the Mediterranean). According to news reports, thousands of soldiers were deployed to help battle the fires. Cooler weather and firefighting efforts brought many fires under control by August 31."
November 2020; ALGERIA
Several wildfires in northern Algeria have caused damage and killed at least two people as of Saturday, November 7. Fires have been reported in ten out of 58 provinces in the country, with the largest burning near the coastal city of Tipaza, where the two fatalities were reported. Authorities in Tipaza province had already announced 2020 to be the worst year for wildfires since 2010 in September, with nearly 900 hectares (2200 acres) of forest or farmland destroyed. Officials have stated that an additional 50 firefighters had been deployed from Algiers to fight the fire which has been burning for two days.
November 2020 ALGERIA
ALGIERS, July 28 (Xinhua) -- The Algerian authorities announced on Sunday that 6,000 hectares of forests have been destroyed in 923 reported fires since June, state-run Algeria Radio reported
Bahrain
Race car driver
April 7, 2014 (strange article considering the prior article with a race car driver fire)
Jan 11, 2013;
Bahrain fire at workers' housing kills 13
Comoros---Deforestation;What is deforestation? click here
In 2010, Comoros had 132kha of tree cover, extending over 79% of its land area. In 2019, it lost 280ha of tree cover, equivalent to 110kt of CO₂ of emissions. From 2002 to 2019, Comoros lost 378ha of humid primary forest, making up 7.1% of its total tree cover loss in the same time period. Total area of humid primary forest in Comoros decreased by 1.6% in this time period. In Comoros the peak fire season typically begins in mid-July and lasts around 14 weeks. There were 5 VIIRS fire alerts reported between 27th of January 2020 and 18th of January 2021 considering high confidence alerts only. This is low compared to previous years going back to 2012. Jan 2020–Jan 2021. In Comoros there have been 0 VIIRS fire alerts reported so far in 2021 considering high confidence alerts only. This total is unusually low compared to the total for previous years going back to 2012. The most fires recorded in a year was 2013, with 16, 2021.Between 25th of January 2020 and 23rd of January 2021 Comoros experienced a total of 97 VIIRS fire alerts.Fire experts, however, are cautioning against comparing the situations in Africa and South America too closely. While the fires are racing through environmentally critical rain forests in Brazil and Bolivia, in Central Africa, they are incinerating savanna and scrubbier land, and mostly licking at the edges of the rainforest, said Lauren Williams, a forest expert with Global Forest Watch who is based in Kinshasa, the Democratic Republic of Congo’s capital.June 26, 2020 Agricultural fires in central Africa light up in Suomi NPP satellite image.
BELIZE CITY, Thurs. Apr. 29, 2020– Forest fires have been raging and burning up large tracts of lands in western and southern Belize for many days now. These forest fires, thousands of them, are burning in several Central American countries and in Southern Mexico. According to the Government of Belize, there are 237 forest fires burning in Belize.
"The fire severity of the 2013–2014 fire season within Sudanian ecosystems in Burkina Faso was evaluated from Landsat 8 images using derivatives of the Normalized Burn Ratio algorithm (NBR)."
A raging fire described as “completely out of control” is threatening one of South America’s major wetland ecosystems. The fire has been burning for months now, and is visible from the balconies of luxury apartments along the shoreline of the ParanĂ¡ River in Argentina’s central city of Rosario.
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