Is this the first time a big forest fire hits CZ?

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1. Not at this scale that I can remember. This is also the first time there are so many consecutive tropical days.

   Edit: there were a lot of tropical days in 2015 as well (43 to be exact), so it is not the first time.

2. In the Saxon/Bohemian Switzerland there have been forest fires every year as far as I can remember, but I can’t remember smoke being visible and smellable in Dresden or Praha, which is the case with this one.

3. No this is exceptional. We are in shock as well

4. Yeah. Let’s give less shit about climate change. It will get better on it’s own.

5. It never really happend, before.

6. Im sure there have been forest fires before, but not nearly this big.

7. This particular national park is on fire every few years, although this one seems to be the biggest so far

8. We also had our biggest tornado yet last year. Feels like we get bullied on every side nowadays.

9. https://hodoninsky.denik.cz/pozary/u-bzence-hori-les-kour-je-videt-na-kilometry-daleko-20120524.html
   – Forest fire in South Moravia 10 years ago

10. The worst fire in 100 years.

11. Yes, because we don’t have big forests

12. There were several large forest fires previously.

    This one is special in that it is in exceptionally inaccessible area, so containment and firefighting was more effective previously

    Most forests in the Czech Republic have a wide network of forestry roads that firefighters normally use with heavy truck to get up close to the fire. Where it is now they mostly don’t have too many other options than using aerial firefighting and waiting for fire to get to them.

    EDIT: The news in the morning was 30 hectares, now in the evening they are [stating 1.000 hectares](https://www.novinky.cz/domaci/clanek/ministryne-zivotniho-prostredi-k-pozarum-v-ceskem-svycarsku-40404057) of forest on fire.

    So yeah, this is a big one.

13. To je taky dost možná těma hovadama co za jízdy vyhazují špačky z okýnka, nebo na procházce

14. Forest fires are relatively common on smaller scale, but this one is really bit due to the combination of drought and long term accumulation of old dead wood – the area is protected natural park.

    Moreover, it consisted of spruce mono-cultures that were hit hard by bark-beetle epidemy in recent years – and all the dead wood stayed in the area without being harvested out, after 3-5 its perfectly dry.

    So this is the reason the fire is so big – it has all the conditions to spread – losts of dry fuel in inaccesible area.