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For more than 10,000 years, the Lumbee, like many Indigenous peoples, used controlled burns to promote healthy ecosystems and clear brush and tinder.

Dahl added that she is particularly concerned about wildfires: "Dry heat like this essentially sucks moisture out of plants and turns them into dry tinder for a wildfire should a spark ignite."

After a series of failures, he finally found the right kind of stick to twirl in the right piece of dry wood, and the right kind of tinder to flare with the first flame.

The Hezbollah leader took his time to respond to the past month of bloodletting which has turned the Middle East into a tinder box.

Elsewhere rapidly growing grass has already died and found a new life as tinder.