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ISRAEL’S 2010 WILDFIRE REVEALS LACK OF PREPARATION, WHILE HIGHLIGHTING BENEFITS OF INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION DECEMBER 1-8, 2010 Walter Hays, Global Alliance for Disaster Reduction, University of North Carolina, USA THE WILDFIRE NEAR HAIFA, THE 3RD LARGEST CITY Israel’s summer of 2010 had been one of the hottest and driest on record, creating conditions that are favorable for wildfires. The cause: A 14-year-old-boy says he had been smoking, using a hookah pipe, in a forest, and the fire got out of control within munutes.. ISRAEL’S WORST WILDFIRE IN HISTORY FINDS ISRAEL UNPREPARED The