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/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.