The whole climate change and bushfire talk is going on in Australia as well, how fires will be more frequent and hotter.
As I've learned a 'normal' bushfire is ok for fire adapted ecology, but these raging super intense fires are not, they sear everything so badly the soil is sterilized and the trees are heated beyond the level at which they would normally recover in a few years and totally die.
Ive sen areas where bushfire moved through fast and didn't have a lot of fuel to sustain it for long enough to get super hot and things three years on are very green.
The other factor that messes things up is the combination of weird patterns, hot, when it shouldn't be, excess low humidity, delayed rains, drought...
Amazing no-one has been hurt, I pray that may continue!