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Wildfires expose — and detonate — buried bombs and mines from WWI and WWII (apnews.com)
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[–] 2 points 1 week ago (1 child)

Anyone complains about the fires in North America needs to be sent to fight those. Either they'll do the job, or the job will do them.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 week ago

    Kind of a silly comparison. A lot of the fires in US are because they imported eucalyptus trees from Australia, which have literally evolved to grow oil on their leaves and want to burn.

    That's why Aussie bushfires are so insane every season too.

    Here in Australia we don't need unexploded ordinates. Our trees are basically barrels of petrol, and in minor gusts even, firefighters can get overrun by a wall of fire quickly

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