Nandita Chowdhury-Conclusion

In my conclusion, I learned as the number of fires increases and the area burned turns out to be more important, it becomes more worrying because exposure to particulates and gasses associated with smoke from wildfires entering cities can lead to people being hospitalized and even premature death. Pollutants emanating from smoke from forest fires always have a greater impact on locations where the smoke is blown by the wind and cause increased ozone concentrations. Therefore, there is increasing evidence that global climate change is spreading fires across the world. Globally, the length of the fire season increased by almost 19% due to long periods of hot, dry weather. Despite the fact that environmental factors have a great influence on all this, as citizens we still have a social responsibility to do everything possible and prevent these tragedies from happening. The increased risk of fires means that we must change the way we manage them. An efficient rural and forest fire policy needs a greater financial boost from governments for more efficient prevention and surveillance plans to be developed.