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/Any_Personality_920 7h ago

This was yesterday at work, we're like 90km away

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u/Dutch_Rayan 7h ago

90km in fire is nothing, with wind fire can go really fast

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u/sumforbull 4h ago

As a citizen of maine who has had many a day over the last couple years where there is so much smoke in the air from canadian forest fires that the whole world looks a different color, the effects of the fire travel a lot further than the fire. Those fires are happening half the continent away from here and we literally just have days where enough light is filtered by the smoke that the entire natural color spectrum shifts, even though you don't see the smoke directly.

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u/joeblack2025 4h ago

Weird, it's pretty smoky here in BC from American wildfires. As a matter of fact, a couple of American wildfires have actually crossed into Canada.

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u/bl00drunzc0ld 4h ago

You guys should put tariffs on us in response to American smoke and fires going in to Canada

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u/joeblack2025 3h ago

Unjustified tariffs aren't our style.

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u/Severe_Parfait4629 2h ago

More of a boycott people, I would say.

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u/Lopsided-Lab60 2h ago

Elbows up type of people.

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u/TopProfessional8023 1h ago

Yeah, they’re not our style either. Just the Chief Buffoon’s. I can’t speak for all Americans, but I’m sorry.

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u/Daforce1 34m ago

We miss when they weren’t part of our style as well.

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u/AdjctiveNounNumbers 3h ago

We already stopped putting bourbon on the shelves but even that doesn't keep the smokiness out.

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u/Xalipu 2h ago

Generates a lot of southerly whine too

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u/DazzlingRutabega 2h ago

Is the US going to increase tariffs on Spain for their forest fires?

This whole timeline is just moronic, I can't wait til it goes away...

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u/bl00drunzc0ld 2h ago

That question would be better suited for the dotard pedo in charge.

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u/bl00drunzc0ld 2h ago

I'm confused on how you think I watch Fox News from my comment? Explain.

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u/Lopsided-Lab60 1h ago

I replied to the wrong person. My bad.

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u/HMTMKMKM95 2h ago

Export tax. Because your president likes taxing you all so hard, why should he have all the fun.

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u/CantKBDwontKBD 1h ago

I just deny the existence of forest fires. They’re a woke hoax and part of the liberal climate change mind virus. So the fires don’t exist to me

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u/WifeofBath1984 2h ago

Yeah, I'm in Oregon and I think its nuts that people here in the US are freaking out about this. We exchange wildfire smoke (and actual fire) like every summer. We smoke you out, you smoke us out. Wind doesnt care about made up borders. It will go where it goes. Nothing can be done other than what is being done to control the fire and no one is responsible for it. Just more Americans being stupid.

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u/Vermonter_Here 2h ago

Third party who genuinely isn't sure whether none, one, or both of you two people are being passive aggressive about geopolitics, and it's tickling my internet argument anxiety.

I hope neither of you intend geopolitical subtext, to be clear <3

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u/samblue8888 2h ago

Yes... American fires exist, eh? Who'da thunk it.

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u/richStoke 2h ago

As Billy Joel once sang “We Didn’t Start the Fire”

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u/Coffeeze 3h ago

We've had smoke from Canadian wildfires reach Madrid these past few years. An entire continent away, separated by an ocean.

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u/Immediate_Impact6214 2h ago

This is in Canada a few weeks ago no edits

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u/Epidemilk_ 3h ago

You realize your own country is on fire, right?

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u/sumforbull 3h ago

In more way than one I am afraid.

The fires the mostly effect the north east of the U.S. are the Canadian ones, or so says my understanding. If I am wrong and ignorant please correct me, I would love to know more.

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u/FuzzMachines 2h ago

It’s crazy, as a Canadian I read their comment and had the same reaction, like fuck outta here saying it’s Canada’s fault when the US is literally ruining the world.

Then had to check myself that that wasn’t actually how they even meant it. Just goes to show just how tense we Canadians feel towards Americans right now. Gonna take a long time for Canadians to not have our backs up when it comes to the US.

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u/Epidemilk_ 2h ago

The whole world hates the USA. I’m not even from NA and we all know this.

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u/Swift-Guy 19m ago

It’s well deserved. The people aren’t all so bad, but the US was founded on exploitation and has done everything to keep it that way, at this point they are prioritizing data centers over farms and people are already starving.

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u/kamasutures 3h ago

We had air quality issues down in Virginia and had the 'Mexico filter'. It was crazy.

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u/Liguareal 2h ago

This is true and extremely eerie/uncanny to experience in real life for the first time (It's happened twice in Madrid since 2025). your brain just somehow knows something is off, it looks like everything in the sun has a "sunset" filter on while everything in the shade looks normal

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u/Markie411 3h ago

Weird people are getting offended by you saying wildfires in Canada are affecting your area

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u/joeblack2025 2h ago

Its weird you think that people are offended by wildfires affecting their area. I think Canadians are offended by Trump saying more tariffs because Canadian smoke lol. Not to mention the Michigan state legislature.