dr tom smith is a wildfire expert. i believe you re at the site of a summer grassland fire in scotland, which is very unusual. fires normally occur in the spring when the heather fuels have dried out and become available to burn before they green up and contain lots of moisture. that usually stops the fires from happening in the summer in scotland. but what you ve seen is that the grasses have got so dry that they were available to burn in august. we re seeing these longer, hotter, drierspells, and that s predicted to continue through the rest of this century until we do something about carbon emissions and reduce the level of greenhouse gases in our atmosphere. how important is acting early, early detection and trying to get on top of things as quickly as possible? first of all, there s prevention, and that s identifying parts of the landscape that are most at risk from fires. we model fires on a landscape using computers. we drop ignitions onto simulations and look at where the fire
it had been particularly dry, and this piece of moorland in west calderjust outside of edinburgh burned for three days. it took 60 firefighters and i2 appliances to eventually bring it under control. dr tom smith is a wildfire expert. i believe you re at the site of a summer grassland fire in scotland, which is very unusual. fires normally occur in the spring, when the heather fuels have dried out and become available to burn before they green up and contain lots of moisture. that usually stops the fires from happening in the summer in scotland. but what you ve seen is that the grasses have got so dry that they were available to burn in august. we are seeing these longer, hotter, drierspells, and that s predicted to continue through the rest of this century until we do something about carbon emissions and reduce the level of greenhouse gases in our atmosphere. how important is acting early, early detection and trying to get on top of things as quickly as possible?
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