25.06.2017

The Conversation:
What links Portugal’s deadliest wildfire to Grenfell Tower?


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Both fires spread quickly and burned with an intensity well beyond what firefighters were able to stop. Both caught residents largely unprepared, with their escape routes cut off, and both left a death toll far beyond what might have been expected for either a building or a forest fire in such highly-developed countries.



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