"the Port Hills are stacked with species that are on the highly-flammable end of Curran’s plant-barbecuing tests—but this may change. On the third day of the fire, Christchurch mayor Phil Mauger told RNZ that there needed to be “a wider community conversation” about whether pine forestry was still a sensible use of the land."
Here's Marley's Hill in the Port Hills of Ōtautahi-Christchurch, NZ, as seen from our house. The photo of it on fire is this morning, the other I took on Saturday.
I've been taking photos of this view every fortnight from our deck, watching how the hill has been recovering from the 2017 Port Hills fire. The clock has just been reset.
See Flickr for the full-res photos if you want to zoom in.