Wildfires kill 339 000 people a year: Study
Wildfires, peat fires and controlled burns on farming lands kill 339,000 people worldwide each year, said a study released on Saturday that is the first to estimate a death toll for landscape fires....
Published By: Times LIVE - Sunday, 19 February, 2012
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