Three thousand residents of Wakefield were evacuated as a result of the Pigeon Valley fire and 2,400 hectares were burned. And so the list for this year goes on: Amazon fire 906,000 hectares burned, Alberta 803,393h burned, Siberia 14.9 million hectares burned and Melbourne 12,400 hectares. James said that if a person can control their tongue, they can control their entire body. Each of us could help to make the world a better place if we continually thought about what we say, who we say it to and how we say it. Let's not be responsible for any (verbal) forest fires and the resulting damage.

Source: Stuff November 17, 2019 16:52 UTC