Hazards: Fire

	Coal Seam, USA, 2002		Coal Seam, USA, 2002
	Hayman Forest, USA, June 2002 These reduced resolution satellite images to show an overview of the Hayman Forest Fire burning in the Pike National Forest 35 miles south of Denver. The images were collected on June 12 and June 20, 2002 by Space Imaging's IKONOS satellite.		Hayman Forest, USA, June 2002 These reduced resolution satellite images to show an overview of the Hayman Forest Fire burning in the Pike National Forest 35 miles south of Denver. The images were collected on June 12 and June 20, 2002 by Space Imaging's IKONOS satellite.
	Cote d’Ivoire Villagers fighting a grass savanna fire approaching a forest.		India Modern forest fire control in India involves the use of adapted technologies, including fire-proof safety clothing.
	Florida, USA Prescribed burn to reduce palmetto (Serenoa repens) understory fuels under slash pine canopy.		South Africa, 2000 The fires which started in the Cape region on the weekend of 16 January 2000 (see country report on Current & Archived Significant Global Fire Events) burned in the Fynbos vegetation, embedded exotic pine plantations and viticulture areas. The total area of Fynbos in the mountain catchment areas in the Western Cape Province cover ca. 800,000 ha.
	Borneo, Indonesia, 1997-1998 Children in the province Eastern-Kalimantan in the smoke during the fire- and smokeperiod 1997 – 1998.		Borneo, Indonesia, 1997-1998 Farmer in the province Eastern-Kalimantan in the smoke during the fire- and smokeperiod 1997 – 1998.
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