RE: Smoke on the mountains, choppers in the sky.
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It's a pity that you have to deal with fire so often in your country dear @papilloncharity.
Fortunately you have a team of firefighters with excellent training in this tough and unbeatable battle of firefighting.
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Thank you and we have very special plants over here that depend upon the fires for continued growth. Mind you not fires every year, as the scientists reckon a fire every 5 years. But those are controlled fires and it's the wild fires that we worry about.
Oh yes, we are happy to have the firefighters around, as things would be worse without them around.
!PIZZA
That's very curious, that thing about trees needing fire. You definitely learn something new every day.
We normally have fire seasons and late summer is one of them, as the grass start to dry, the African sun is very hot and strong winds arise. A tinderbox for fires.
They are not actually trees, but rather special "Protea bushes" and "Fynbos bushes" that only grow in this part of the world. When they burn, the ground is replenished. Sort of an automatic fertilizing of the ground so that they can continue to grow after the fire.
Thank you for the appreciation of my efforts.
!PIZZA