WILDFIRE

According to the definitions that the dictionary

gives, the wildfires are:

1. -Fire that burns what is not destined to burn.
2. - A highly flammable composition, as Greek fire, difficult to extinguish when ignited, formerly used in warfare.
3. - Any large fire that spreads rapidly and is hard to extinguish.
4. - Sheet lightning, unaccompanied by thunder. But like we commonly know it is an uncontrolled fire often occurring in wildland areas, but which can also consume houses or agricultural resources.

Extreme wildfires behave erratically and unpredictably. In the case of a forest, wildfires can move at tremendous speeds as 60 km in a single day, consuming up to 4 km² per hour

CAUSES:
The most common reasons of the wildfire are:
Arson, negligence humanizes like smokers, devices of heating installed badly, wrong manipulation of inflammable liquids, electrical damaged, on mechanical warming: friction of bearings, storage of inflammable material without the due precautions, etc.

In the case of forest wildfire, the causes are a little different, some examples are:
Human carelessness, arson, lightning, volcano eruption and pyroclastic cloud from active volcano, but they are more, heat waves, droughts and cyclical climate changes such as "El Niño" can also have a dramatic effect on the risk of wildfires.

CONSEQUENCES:

Destruction of the fauna and of its natural habitat, destruction of the ecosystem, impoverishment and erosion of the soils, destruction of the hydrological cycles and oxygen, water loss for the culture and the community, environmental pollution and destruction of the beauty of the landscape, overheating of the atmosphere (climatic change), possibility of death of domestic animals and even of human beings, destruction of housings, machineries, infrastructure and equipments, destruction of agricultural cultures, loss of the raw material for the industry, flesh and paper.


PREVENTION:

TO AVOID A WILDFIRE IN HOUSE:

-keep lighters out of the scope of the children.
-Don't allow that they should ignite either fires or bonfires.
-If a frying pan with oil or fat catches fire, don't try to extinguish it with water, cover it with a lid.
-Check from time to time the installation and electrical appliances, repairing immediately any damage that exists. The above mentioned repairs they must make them authorized and competent technical personnel.
-Install detectors of smoke operated on by batteries out of every area of bedrooms and in every floor of your house.
-Plan and test a method of alerting the rest of the inhabitants of the presence of fire. It is a good idea to place a stamp in every room with this intention.


TO AVOID A WILDFIRE IN THE FOREST:

If you want to do a bonfire, clean the soil of any vegetation in a diameter of 5 meters, surrounding the same one with stones.

- If you are not near a water course keep always a container with water near the burner for emergency cases.
- When you move back from the camp, you must extinguish well the burner covering with sand, water or land.
- You must never throw glasses, plastic or papers. Take always with you a bag where to gather the residues.
- You must avoid leaving any waste or garbage, because besides being contaminating the zone, some of these residues might act like trigger of the fire.

To finish what I believe is that what we need is more information about it, because in my opinion the people don't know all the possible reasons that can provoke a wildfire and because of this they don't take the pertinent measures to anticipate this type of catastrophes. If more campaigns were done to report and to prepare the people about wildfire and its consequences, we could diminish notably the statistics about the numbers of wildfires that occurred in one year.


Watch what a wildfire can does http://es.youtube.com/watch?v=AvHYMjr_mI4