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wildfire

noun as in blaze

noun as in conflagration

noun as in flame

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This month, the California Island Conservancy announced a plan to rid the landscape of its entire nonnative deer population using contracted hunters, saying the animals increase the risk of wildfire.

Or the devastating Pasadena and Altadena wildfires that decimated historic libraries and cultural archives.

About two-thirds of respondents also said wildfires in the Mediterranean area would not make them think twice about holidaying there.

From BBC

In addition to resuming its duties providing milk for the family farm, the goat can now go back to performing a second important job — helping prevent wildfires by grazing on flammable brush.

After the state faced its most destructive wildfire season on record in 2017, the California Governor’s Office of Emergency Services published statewide Alert and Warning Guidelines and standardized alert language.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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