Fire in Peat
As the cover of the OPapel 11 August 2000.
Fire grazing results in burning of more than 10 days.
"Smoke on the city was fire under the earth."
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The town of Lagoa da Prata has an interesting curiosity, the peat. A kind of land that catches fire, rich in organic matter. Peat is formed through the accumulation of years of organic matter that settles in low areas brought about by the flood rains.
The fire began on July 30, 2000 and only 10 days after the arrival of the fire department Divinópolis that it tried to control it effectively, because previous attempts were unsuccessful. Several tractors had to turn over the land to put out the fire.
At the time the movement of patients in the emergency room due to respiratory diseases increased.
Similar situation also had occurred 20 years ago as reported Engineer Carlos Brazil Guadalupe. The city was all smoky like a polo industrial region of the peak of pollution in that region.
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Famous quotes containing the word fire:
““God’s fire upon the wane,
A diagram hung there instead,
More women born than men.””
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)