The above picture is of many of the sites by which the fires occurred. As you can see, they are mainly in the western part of the United states, ranging all the way from Montana to New Mexico. The fires destroyed countless peoples homes and thousands of acres of land. Mind you, this is a picture of the fires mainly in August, and more fires occurred after that time. For example, many more fires occurred in California and across the west.
We have managed to get an interview of someone who was affected by the fires.
Interview with Abby Qurzner (Victim of the Yarnell fire)
Melissa: Hello! How are you? I know you must be having a difficult time after what happened.
Abby: I'm fine, we are just taking it day by day.
Melissa: Can you tell me if you know how this whole thing started?
Abby: The temperatures have been really, really hot recently and there has been little to no rain. All it took was just one spark to burn up a lot of land. Everything burned really easily because of the conditions.
Melissa: Do you have an idea of how many acres of land the fire destroyed? Also how do you think the biodiversity will change?
Abby: Well the papers said that it destroyed about 3,636,606 acres plus closed countless roads. For the biodiversity, I think it will decrease in the verities of different plant life, but that might be fixed in a few years.
Melissa: What about the Ozone layer do you think with all these fires that it would be affected?
Abby: Well what I think is that it might be affect like the gasses going to the atmosphere and harming the ozone layer, but I still think it won't affect it that much like greenhouse gases do. Plus people have been using fires for years to help grow crops because after a fire the soil if more fertile. I think its a lot like a natural version of shifting cultivation, because a whole area is burnt down and you can't grow anything there for a while, but the soil eventually become really fertile.
I also heard that 19 firefighters were killed in the Yarnell fires. Is it really true about what I heard on the news?
Melissa: Sorry to say, but yes there were 19 firefighters that were killed trying to calm down the destructive fire. It is a huge tragedy and we are all grieving for the loss of those amazing people. Okay, one last question: Do you know when the fires started? In other words, what was the first you heard of them happening?
Abby: I remember getting home from work and seeing on the news warnings that there had been a couple fires and that more were to come somewhere around the middle of summer, because that was when the temperatures were just sky rocketing and there was no rain. The worst month was August, there was just fire after fire.
Melissa: Wow, that must be so difficult for everyone living in the area. Thank you for talking to us today, we now all know more about what really happened during the fires.
Abby: No problem, thanks for having me!
Interview with Abby Qurzner (Victim of the Yarnell fire)
Melissa: Hello! How are you? I know you must be having a difficult time after what happened.
Abby: I'm fine, we are just taking it day by day.
Melissa: Can you tell me if you know how this whole thing started?
Abby: The temperatures have been really, really hot recently and there has been little to no rain. All it took was just one spark to burn up a lot of land. Everything burned really easily because of the conditions.
Melissa: Do you have an idea of how many acres of land the fire destroyed? Also how do you think the biodiversity will change?
Abby: Well the papers said that it destroyed about 3,636,606 acres plus closed countless roads. For the biodiversity, I think it will decrease in the verities of different plant life, but that might be fixed in a few years.
Melissa: What about the Ozone layer do you think with all these fires that it would be affected?
Abby: Well what I think is that it might be affect like the gasses going to the atmosphere and harming the ozone layer, but I still think it won't affect it that much like greenhouse gases do. Plus people have been using fires for years to help grow crops because after a fire the soil if more fertile. I think its a lot like a natural version of shifting cultivation, because a whole area is burnt down and you can't grow anything there for a while, but the soil eventually become really fertile.
I also heard that 19 firefighters were killed in the Yarnell fires. Is it really true about what I heard on the news?
Melissa: Sorry to say, but yes there were 19 firefighters that were killed trying to calm down the destructive fire. It is a huge tragedy and we are all grieving for the loss of those amazing people. Okay, one last question: Do you know when the fires started? In other words, what was the first you heard of them happening?
Abby: I remember getting home from work and seeing on the news warnings that there had been a couple fires and that more were to come somewhere around the middle of summer, because that was when the temperatures were just sky rocketing and there was no rain. The worst month was August, there was just fire after fire.
Melissa: Wow, that must be so difficult for everyone living in the area. Thank you for talking to us today, we now all know more about what really happened during the fires.
Abby: No problem, thanks for having me!
Vocabulary Words:
Biodiversity: The variety of living things in a certain area
Ozone Layer: An area about 6.2 miles above the Earths surface in the Earths atmosphere that contains a high concentration of ozone, this area protects the Earth from many of the suns harmful rays
Atmosphere: The gasses surrounding Earth
Shifting Cultivation: When you burn down all of the vegetation in an area and abandon it, only to come back once the nutrients of the charred plants seep into the soil and make it fertile.
Biodiversity: The variety of living things in a certain area
Ozone Layer: An area about 6.2 miles above the Earths surface in the Earths atmosphere that contains a high concentration of ozone, this area protects the Earth from many of the suns harmful rays
Atmosphere: The gasses surrounding Earth
Shifting Cultivation: When you burn down all of the vegetation in an area and abandon it, only to come back once the nutrients of the charred plants seep into the soil and make it fertile.
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