The Bushfire or the Wildfire
It might surprise many of you American readers to know that, down here in Australia, we don’t actually have wildfires. It’s a surprising fact isn’t it? From what I’m able to cobble together, Australia has never had a wildfire.
Granted, our bushfire seasons are horrific!
OK, so yeah, I’m just having a bit of fun with the different words and descriptions, but I have a point. Not an etymological point, but a point nonetheless.
A Brief
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A match made in heaven it surely isn’t, but global warming has definitely played its part in the recent tragic events hitting California. The wildfires sweeping across parts of California have forced half a million to flee their homes, left 400,000 acres of land a charred ruin, and reduced some 1,300 homes to rubble.
