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Large fires can be started by quite hard to prevent things. We had a fire a couple of years ago that burned a bunch of houses that was started by a lightning strike on a single tree a week or more beforehand. The fire smoldered unnoticed near a popular hiking trail, inside the trunk then emerged much later when wind speed became high.



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