Wild Bushfire

Running head: WILD BUSHFIRE
WILD BUSHFIRE
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1WILD BUSHFIRE
The paper intends to evaluate the reasons for the sudden breakout of bushfire in
different corners of the world in recent times starting from the West to East. The intention of
the paper is to concentrate on a comparative study between the reasons behind the previous
fire and the current occurrence of fire in different places.
To start with China the deadly fire had occurred in 1987 burning an average area of
18 million acres of land is known as Black Dragon Fire (Nath, 2019). Hong Kong had
witnessed a terrible bush fire in 1996 killing 5 hikers at the same time. Israel had also
envisioned such tremendous forest fires in which Mount Carmel fire was very dangerous that
occurred in 1989. Another devastating fire took place in the year 2010 that started spreading
around in 2nd December and took away lives of 44 people destroying 41km2 of forest. Japan
has always been a point of natural disaster. Bushfire is one of them. In the year 1971 the
forest fire that took place on April 27th burnt more than 840 acres of forest in Western
Honshu. The fire was so destructive in nature that it killed 18 firefighters.
On analyzing the accounts of recent fire that took place around the world shows how
on February 2019, at Bandipur in India the fire was massive in nature and it affected the
national park located in Bandipur starting from 21st February and went on till 25th February. It
was also spread to Mudumalai Forest burning more than 40 acres of forest (Ananth et al.,
2019). In the month of April in the same year South Korea had witnessed the horrible fire in
Gangwon Province destroying more than 2,000 buildings and burning 1,307 acres of forest
into ashes. The fire continued to burn the forest for three days injuring almost thirty people.
Ever since the draught began in the year of 2017, the September of 218 had been the
direst among every possible weather condition in eastern Australia (West et al., 2020).
However there was little spark starting from June that finally took a bigger shape in October,
2019. It certainly has been ignited from the elongated draught leading the embers to spread