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While terrible to behold, forest fires are a part of nature and like all parts of nature, serve their purpose. Wood in order to ignite must be heated to a temperature of 572o F. In nature there are several ways to perform this task; the most common occurrences are lightning strikes. Other ways include drought, volcano eruption, sparks caused by falling rocks, and finally even from the energy release of decomposition. There are several ways to control forest fires, the most common way would be to cre