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What's with these forest fires in FL ? Seen it on the news this morning..

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Old 05-10-2006, 04:05 AM
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Default What's with these forest fires in FL ? Seen it on the news this morning..

hope everybody's okay over there. I've heard there's been some accidents due to the smoke.
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Default NO rain! Hot! No Rain. did I mention hot! Plus, there is a lot of vegetation that >>>

was brought into the southern areas years ago to aid with keeping the drained swamp lands dry that have a tendency to be highly combustible.

Did I mention it was HOT down here!
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Erm....so it's hot then ? ;-)
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Seems like that happens pretty much every year down there.
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it usually rains a lot around this time of year..we haven't any rain so it is very very dry.
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not to this degree. Fl is in a state of emergency because of the fires.
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i thought i forgot to mention it was HOT.
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Default Dumb question.....when you say State of Emergency - what exactly is

happening ? How far can this fire spread ?....I did notice that there are a few homes which are based in and around the trees
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