The Russian Fires of 2010. They were made worse by Russia's not being prepared -- for one thing, Vladimir Putin eliminated the national fire service in 2007 -- and, they were made to seem not as bad as they really were by lack of media attention -- with some villages being burnt two weeks before information about them surfaced.
With a shortage of official firefighters, people ended up going out on their own -- volunteering -- to fight the fires.
In the U.S., I do not judge that the fires and drought and heat wave have received much attention.
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