Forest Fire Kills 40 in Israel

On December 2^nd 2010, a forest fire in northern Israel killed about 40 people. Many of these deaths occurred when a bus with prisoners and prison guards were on the way to help with the people in the area, went up in flames. The Carmel Forest area cleared about 500 people earlier that day including 500 Palestinian inmates from Damon prison. The fire occurred around the Druze village of Osafia, the Haifa University, a hotel, farm and residential property. There is still an investigation over the cause of the fire. Causes could be from Israel’s previous hot summer with little rain and the spread has been inferred to have spread from strong winds. This relates to what we have learned about in this unit because of our discussions on forest fires and different types of forest climates and biomes. I think that the cause of this fire was the build up of flammable chemicals that were collected on the ground from the long summer of little rain and hot climates.

http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2010/12/04/israel-wildfire.html