Riley.sBrazil wildfires. 1998In Romania

The firesThe fires took place on its savannahs, grassland and deciduous forests. Hundreds of people were killed in the fires and one of the planets most primitive peoples, the Yanomami Indians, were threatened.It is thought that the first fires started because of forest clearing for agricultural land. Farmers in Brazil often burned parts of forest to gain fertile farmland. Droughts caused fires to linger, rather than burn out.

From the airThis is a shot from a air plane over brazil.

Wildfires has its ability to change direction unexpectedly and to jump gaps, such as roads, rivers and fire breaks

The state of Roraima, in northern Brazil is on fire. A disaster similar to the recent fires in Indonesia is taking place and government responsibility is also similar. As in Indonesia, the Brazilian Amazon is continuously being set on fire to open up the area to "development", through a process beginning with road-building. Such roads serve as vehicles to government-promoted colonization processes, which entail the destruction of forests through logging, conversion to agriculture and cattle raising, mining, hydropower development, etc. In this scenario, fires don't "occur"; they are the cheapest and more commonly-used mechanism to clear the land for "development". The Brazilian government -as its Indonesian colleague- knows this perfectly well and until now has been unwilling to put a stop to this practice. They must therefore be held responsible for such destruction.

Wildfires occur on every continent except Antarctica. Fossil records and human history contain accounts of wildfires, which can be cyclical events. [5][6] Wildfires can cause extensive damage, both to

property and human life, but they also have various beneficial effects on wilderness areas. [4]