FOREST FİRES

                                           FOREST FİRES

           My hometown Bergama is very beautiful city. It is not too big. But you can find almost

everything which you want in there.

           It is like a heaven with its historical places, villages, products, nature and etc. I wish all

these beauties were able to stay without demolishing. But like other cities , Bergama is also

living some problems and forest fires are one of them. Especially in its village which is named

as Kozak, fires are set up frequently.

           We can say lots of causes about forest fires such as leaving fire without extinguishing, 

reflected sun rays’s contact with glass, excessive heat, setting fire with the aim of profit. But

in Kozak, the main cause is leaving fire without extinguishing. Because people coming to

make picnic there don’t extinguish their fire by thinking it is not big to cause fire. But because

of the unwaited causes such as wind , excessive heat,  fire can grow and cause the big forest

fire. Consequently, lots of negative effects appear. For example; quantity of  water in dams

decrease, animals die, trees  annihilate, structure of soil demolishes, landslide appear.  Also as

a big consequent  of these, quantity of oxygen decreases , economy takes harm, picnic area

vanishes, and natural balance changes.

           All these negativeness have bad effects on my hometown. If people were careful little

more, security preventation were tight, risk of forest fires would decrease. Shortly, everything

depends on people. Everybody must be conscious and my hometown must stay as an

unchanged beauty.

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