The escalating war between Hezbollah and Israel — coupled with scorching heat — has sparked fires that are destroying forests and farmland.
It was only 10 a.m., but it had already been a long day for the firefighters in these borderlands of southern Lebanon. They had barely finished containing a 130-acre forest fire when a call came in at 2 a.m. about a house in flames. Both blazes were caused by bombs from Israeli warplanes. Now there were three teams, all scrambling one recent Thursday morning to deal with fires from Israeli strikes across the 15 villages and towns under their mandate.
'If I had time, I wouldn't leave a single blade of grass burning,' he said. 'But this is all I can do now. 'Smell that? That's the oil in the olives burning.' Back in the pickup, he began rattling off the names of orchards ravaged by the hostilities, a note of sadness in his voice: 'On this mountain, we've already lost 12 acres of oak. Nearby, more than 200 acres of seasonal fruit trees, not to mention olives.
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