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What Is A Cautionary Tale Of Wildfire
Do you know there were 52,903 cases of wildfire occurrence across the U.S. from January to April 2017? Is it a no, yes or maybe? It's a shame that the mainstream society today is rather spending time on trivial things such as celebrity news, be materialistic and etcetera than paying attention to the physical surroundings and care about environmental ethics. Although people might take it as a cautionary tale of the forest fires frivolously, hopefully, it's not when they realize America had only the total number of 65,575 and 61,922 wildfires for the whole year of 2016 and

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