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Type in the content of your page here. Bushfires Description of disaster Natural bushfires are usually started by heat or lighting also bushfires can be different colours like orange, red and blue. Bushfires fuel is dry like leaves, grass and trees and lots of other things also if the wind blows the fire will spread. What causes Bushfires? Heat causes Bushfires and so does lightning and then its spreads onto dry things like dead trees and leaves. Trees fall onto electricity wires and the electricity falls to the ground and starts a fire. Sometimes people start fires deliberately and then it connects with the bush and starts a bushfire and sometimes it starts in the bush. Bushfires are also started by people who can’t dispose of their cigarette butts properly and just dump them somewhere where it will catch on fire. The effect on the people and the communities and the Environment Bushfires kill and hurt lots of people because of its burning heat and also lots of trees which help us breathe fresh air. Houses catch on fire a lot because of the flammables in houses and on houses like dead leaves in the gutters. Bush fires burn and kill lots of trees and also counting people and animals near it. How bushfires are forecasted? Bushfires can’t really be forecasted except on hot days. And long periods of droughts. Then the soil is dry could be a bushfire. Interesting Facts Planes can put out Bushfires by dropping water and so does helicopters. Most fire fighters die of the sudden Change of win. New South Wales 1997 bushfires burnt 800,000 hectors of land including 40 national parks.