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This woman is not a quitter.

British Columbia isn't the only place with forest fire problems, the folks in Spain and Portugal (where the preceeding link is from) aren't having much fun these days either. I remember when half of Siberia was in flames a few years ago and the smoke was drifiting over the Pacific and down the coast of British Columbia. I was living in Hell at the time and you could smell the smoke in the air.

Factoid for the day: every car that burns gives off an average of 450 pounds of toxic smoke and airborne pollutants. It's the paint, plastics, oils and tires. Here in this little slice of redneck heaven, about 1000 cars are torched every year. Some for fun, some for the insurance and some because they were stolen.

Hmmm...I'm on a fire theme today. If I could find this as a sound file I'd be all set.