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There are several causes for the fires. Some were started     1     by people, and others were caused by lightning strikes or electrical equipment. Yet experts say the fires are particularly bad this year because of climate change. Climate change is the long-term changes in world weather patterns,     2     rising temperatures. In recent years, California has experienced drought (a long period of time without rain) and very hot temperatures. This month, heatwave in California saw temperatures     3     49℃ in Los Angeles county. This hot, dry weather creates ideal conditions for wildfires to spread. Another cause is the lack of forest management. This involves burning dead trees in a controlled way so that when a fire does start, there is less     4     for it to burn, and it can be more easily controlled.

On 26^th January, the biggest earthquake in India     1     of 25,000 people. In the morning, when everybody     2     a nice day, the earthquake began. “There is     3     left between the sky and the earth any more. Everything has been     4     down,” said one of the     5    . “There     6     no water, no food and no one has come to help.”

Nobody     7     in Pakistan, a country next to India. I was studying at school at that moment. We were on the     8     floor, so most of us didn’t feel anything. My mother didn’t feel anything,     9    . She didn’t even know that it was an earthquake. My dad saw the computer shaking and then     10     the window and saw many people going out.