The Effect Of Forest Fires In California

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Although the world has to many different natural disasters, forest fires seems to happen quite often in California.
Forest fires are uncontrolled blazes fueled by dry underbrush, wind, and weather. In the matter of seconds. wildfires can burn acres of land and destroy everything in their paths. For a wildfire to burn there needs to be three conditions present, fire fighters call it fuel, oxygen, and a heat sources the “The fire triangle.” Any type of fuel is flammable material circling a fire, this includes brush, grass, trees, and fragile homes (“Wildfires Dry, Cold, and Windy”).
Forest fires affect people in a lot of ways, shapes and forms, one of the most common affects on people are the smoke that the forest fire attracts. Fire can