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DANG, Nepal (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - In the eight years that Basudev Pokharel has worked as a forest guard, he has rarely seen a fire as huge as the one that raged through his village in western Nepal in March.
Hundreds of such fires have been spreading across the country since November, in the worst wildfire season Nepal has seen in a decade.
The night the blaze reached Pokharel’s village of Sungure, in Dang district, a neighbour woke him to warn him.
“We tried to control the fire, but it spread so rapidly that we were helpless,” the 55-year-old recalled.
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