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Fighting a wildfire in South Africa

Morelug farm is water-bombed by helicopter on Jan. 29, in Paarl, South Africa. Scores of firefighters are fighting a runaway veld fire that swept through the entire Boland region in the Western Cape, according to SABC News. Veld fires are fires that occur in the open countryside away from urban areas. Veld comes from the Afrikaans word for field.

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