Discuss carelessness, accidents, and arson. To reinforce that personal safety is the most important rule in all fire events.
Fire is both our friend and foe.
Therein lie the contradiction and the challenges. In 1998, over one-half million acres of Florida burned. Worldwide some 250,000 wildland fires occur each year burning an area equal in size to Portugal. The average fire fighting cost in the United States has reached to one billion dollars per year, plus many more dollars lost in property and natural resources. In that same year, Spain had 800,000 acres burned and suffered the loss of a crew of 19 firefighters.