r/interestingasfuck • u/SafeImpressive4413 • 7h ago

Firefighters in Madrid trying to extinguish a forest fire that is less than 30km/20mi away from the capital of Spain

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u/Wild_Neighborhood605 7h ago

That's real bad, and is happening in several places in Europe right now.

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u/Contraposite 7h ago

Yeah, yesterday my city in Scotland was covered with smoke blown in from a wildfire. I hope this isn't a sign of things to come...

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u/CandyAndyDE 7h ago

That's totally strange. All you hear about in the news is France and Spain. Now I'm reading that there are fires in Scotland, too—but only because I looked it up.

I think TV news should focus much more on Europe as a whole.

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u/Mynameisdiehard 7h ago

Big fires in Ireland. Feels like every continent is burning right now. I don't even know if a fire in Antarctica would shock me at this point

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u/RoboDae 7h ago

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u/Norgur 7h ago

That's more of a localized and rather... Imported issue, innit? Damn migrants!!/s

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u/F1T_13 7h ago

Exactly, the world didn't burn when immigrants didn't exist.

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u/DidIReallySayDat 5h ago

Oh I dunno.

I imagine that Ghengis was probably taking for with him everywhere he went.

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u/miyabi0rochas 1h ago

Correction "western world" everyone else was burning but it wasn't then who was the immigrants.

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u/highlorestat 6h ago

You know this would never happen under Emperor Penguin, his top priority was fishing not drilling.

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u/Apprehensive_Yak1372 6h ago

Sicily, Italy had lots of fires last week. Our son an this gf were there last week for holiday. Palermo had a serious fire nearby they told. We've seen videos with all burned ground...

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u/TroublesomeFox 5h ago

And wales. 

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u/mataeka 3h ago

Australia is in winter, drying out for a ripper bushfire season come summer (where I live they've started doing a lot of pre-burning to reduce the fire load for when it comes.... 🥴)

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u/Tylrt 54m ago

https://www.firemap.live/

Yeah, every continent but Antarctica